Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

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People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while.

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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

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