There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

W.H. Auden

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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.

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Art is born of humiliation.

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Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

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'Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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— W. H. Auden

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