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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann

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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. – Paul Cezanne

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. – Pablo Picasso

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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. – Paul Cezanne

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