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Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.
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Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
A truly well made bottom is the only link between Art and Nature.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
The errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.