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"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."
"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."
"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."
"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
"For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music."
"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
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