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— Ralph Vaughan Williams"I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country."
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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