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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood
Of all lies, art is the least untrue
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts
The object of art is to give life a shape
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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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