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"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
"Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
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