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If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

Robin G. Collingwood

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Robin G. Collingwood
Age: 53 †
Born: 1889
Born: February 22
Died: 1943
Died: January 9
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The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts
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The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?
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