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Horace Walpole

"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

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"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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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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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

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"Music communicates with the soul."

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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

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"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."

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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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