Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
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In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
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