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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Tropic of Cancer
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs
An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of beauty - a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all deformity and disproportion
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men
The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives
A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs: by easy methods
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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