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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
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