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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"I see my life in terms of music."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Art
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Communication
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
Comfort
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
Soul
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
Destruction
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
Love
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
Birds
"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
Earth
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
Discrimination
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