#Artists

What we call imagination, which we value so highly in great poets — is, essentially, unbridled, loose, or if you will,

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All art is immoral.

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Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

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What men are among the other creatures of the earth, artists are among men.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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The man of powerful intellect runs over with ideas; he scatters them by the handful. He is wretched if he cannot share them

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am

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The poetizing philosopher, the philosophizing poet, is a prophet. A didactic poem should be and tends to become prophetic.

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In order that the picture of life should not prove too depressing, the writer must provide himself in due season with

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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

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It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world,

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell

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There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard

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Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness.

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