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I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

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The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
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The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.
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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
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The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.
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Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.
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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
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A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.
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Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.
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Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
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Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.
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All color is no color.
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Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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