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How immeasurably fortunate my father was in his faith!

— Robert Hughes Things I Didn't Know (2006)

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The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.

Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Time magazine (1996)

What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.

Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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