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Quote by Henry Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams

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All art is quite useless. – Oscar Wilde

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. – Karl Kraus

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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. – E. M. Forster

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I dont think theres any artist of any value who doesnt doubt what theyre doing. – Francis Ford Coppola

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