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In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand be...more

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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become a...more

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If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every t...more

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The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over ...more

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My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to rel...more

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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

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A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

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Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cin...more

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Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

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...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And t...more

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When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a fi...more

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Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning n...more