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If modern painters feel qualm...

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

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In art, we are the first heir...

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

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The ordinary man puts up a st...

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

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Every young man's heart is a ...

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

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What is Man? A miserable litt...

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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Could we bring ourselves to f...

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.

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History may clarify our under...

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

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The mind supplies the idea of...

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

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Just as a musician loves musi...

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

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All art is a revolt against m...

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

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No one can endure his own sol...

No one can endure his own solitude.

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Between eigtheen and twenty, ...

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

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Every creation is, at its roo...

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

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The great mystery is not that...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

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The great Christian art did n...

The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

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Culture is the sum of all the...

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

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To love a painting is to feel...

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

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An artist discovers his geniu...

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

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Then I despair... I remember ...

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

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There is always a need for in...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....