"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art."

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Source : Arnold Schoenberg (2014). “Style and Idea”, p.49, Open Road Media

Arnold Schoenberg

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“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
“Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent. Â Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship. Â Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience. Â Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.”
“My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation...”
“When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.”

Source : "Frank Shamrock on Fight Master, Episode 4: 'We realized after six or seven hours, no one was going to give up'". Interview with Shaun Al-Shatt, www.mmafighting.com. July 18, 2013.
“If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.”
“I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.”
“These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.”
“In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.”

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