To the degree that respect for professors ... has risen in our society, respect for writers has fallen. Today the professorial intellect has a...
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To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. ...
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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
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... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
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Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
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What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing...
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I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, wher...
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... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of...
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Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might...
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What is the use of 'good' painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we d...
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