The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
AL ALVAREZThe real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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In the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets’ nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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