I hate people who collect things and classify things and gi… - John Fowles

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I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don’t see him as a living individual painter any more.

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John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.

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