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"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."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
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"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."
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"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
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"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
Art
"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
Love
"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"Genius is childhood recalled at will."
Genius
"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
Heaven
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love
"I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old."
Society
"God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist."
God
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Man
"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."
Beauty
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