Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But … it is better to be good than to be ugly.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
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