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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."

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

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

"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."

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

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

"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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