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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.