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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but th...more

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Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through ...more

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You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

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It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it seemed to me, as I listened to the gra...more

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But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of...more

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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a ...more

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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessib...more

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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms e...more