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When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. ...
... laws haven't the slightest interest for me--except in the world of science, in which they are always changing; or in the world ...
Art to me was a state, it didn't need to be an accomplishment. By any of the standards of production, achievement, performance, I ...
Art is "should be."
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affini ...
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the bru ...
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point ...
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what--eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of liv ...
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author ...
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