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All art is quite useless.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I’ve wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations – the atmospheric pressure, you might say – of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.