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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Either move or be moved.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Literature is news that stays news.
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of... →
All great art is born of the metropolis.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.