Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
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It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.