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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the di

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. – Isadora Duncan

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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. – Theodore Bikel

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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