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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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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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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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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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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

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Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.