The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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Marx was wrong jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man.
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a ''will to renewal.'' This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of ''crises'' -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no ''crisis,'' there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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You can only predict things after they have happened.
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