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- Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
- A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through…
- Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
- Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
- Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
- A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
- Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
- I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
- Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
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