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> [In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/in-order-to-correctly-define-art-it-is-necessary-first-of-all-to/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/signe-baumane/i-define-art-as-a-work-created-by-a-human-that-has-a-unique-point-of/)

[Signe Baumane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/signe-baumane/)

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> [I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-shafrazi/i-was-asked-in-1969-by-lucy-lippard-to-define-art-i-think-at-the-time/)

[Tony Shafrazi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-shafrazi/)

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> [I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/i-work-in-the-field-of-art-and-you-know-how-during-a-period-of/)

[Joseph Beuys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-beuys/)

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