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Art and Literature
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Commenttiny.ag/xudcfsey · ★★☆☆ Fair (845 ratings) · submitted 1997
In a painting I want to say something comforting.
Commenttiny.ag/wqaxitgv · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", in Art and Literature
Commenttiny.ag/4dr826gh · ★★☆☆ Fair (787 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Commenttiny.ag/inomue9p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1073 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
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