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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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Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid t...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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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