…most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
– Idries Shah
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- Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. – Boris Pasternak
- In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
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