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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"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."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."
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