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Quotes from The Romantic Manifesto — Ayn Rand

1905–1982 Russia

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

Art is man's metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ayn Rand (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.