The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Art is an absolute mistress she will not be coquetted with or slighted she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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