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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it."
"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."
"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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