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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
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October 16, 1854
Died:
November 30, 1900
(aged 46)
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