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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."

"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."

"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."

"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
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