As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
