James Joyce
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The Artist is a supreme artist when he is capable of disentangling the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances and re-embodying it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office.
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The Artist's object is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
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The Artist is like the God of the creation in that he remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
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The Artist is the mediator between the world of his experience (i.e. Guided by a selective faculty) and the world of his dreams (i.e. Guided by a reproductive faculty).
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Authorial intention is unknowable, in that we cannot control our scribblings, which amount to the script of one's personality like one's voice or one's walk.
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Bonding is often negatively premised. We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Christopher Columbus is a man who was honored because he was the last to discover America.
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Civilization is so full of hurry and combat (bequeathed to us as it is by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters) that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
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Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country... it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.