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When a performance isn’t working, it’s usually because the actor is trying to do something and they’re not able to express their idea very well. It’s a muddled expression.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.