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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"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."
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
"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."
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