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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

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It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.

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Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

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All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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