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All art is theft.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Art is anything you can get away with.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

All art is a confession.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.