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Robert Graves

"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."

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"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

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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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"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."
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"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
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"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."
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"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."
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"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
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"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
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