Who said “Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life…”?

“Art is science made clear.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”

“The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.”

“Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.”

“An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”

“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”

“Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.”