"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."

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"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."

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"For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music."

Music, Poetry, First, Necessity

"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."

Language, Prose

"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"

God, Future, Ignorance, Man

"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."

Poetry, Visit

"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."

Life, Evil, Struggle

"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."

Work, Thought, Man

"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."

Happiness, Eyes, Feet, Light

"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

Art, Reality

"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."

Negative, Exercise, Liberty, Poets

"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."

Art, Consciousness, Man, Production

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"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

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"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."

James Cameron, American Director

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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."

John Griffin Carlisle, American Politician

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"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives."

John Le Carre, English Writer

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"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."

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"If you sense there must be more, there is more."

Alan Cohen, American Businessman

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