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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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