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"Insight is the first condition of Art."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."

"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things."
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