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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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Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were n...more

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

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

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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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Within this restless, hurried, modern worldWe took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,And now the white sails of our ship are furled,And spent the ...more

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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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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love wil...more

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I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.