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The radiance of which he speaks is the scholastic quidditas, the whatness of a thing. This supreme quality is felt by the artist w ...
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itse ...
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the fe ...
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase ...
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied ...
A Classical style, he said, is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the ...
The artist, he imagined, standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams--"a ...
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. I ...
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
I find (a coffin) a handsome piece of furniture, even empty; when someone is lying in it, then, in my eyes, it is positively subli ...
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