Quote by Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. – Walt Whitman

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Id like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. Ive admired him for 35 years. Hes someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff Im actually sleeping with him. – Shirley MacLaine

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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. – Jerry Saltz

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I dont want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. – Ernst Fischer

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