Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan
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- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
- To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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