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  • What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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  • Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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  • Art is born of humiliation.
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  • 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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  • A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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  • It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
    - W. H. Auden