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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly ...more

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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 artistic...more

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or givin...more

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...more

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Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their app...more

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

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Men know life too early women know life too late.