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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

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There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach m...more

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The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

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In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they are in an abridged edi...more

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Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence;Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part.They taught me to express my deep abhorrenceIf I caught...more

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Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

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In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as such ...more

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A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the ...more

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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.