"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."

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The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

— George Eliot