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"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
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