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We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born…
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it…
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then…
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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,…
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For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…
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Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts…
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What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish…
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True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers.…
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The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the…
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Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political…
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We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.
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Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you…
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it…
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Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday…
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The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.
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An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool
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What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity…
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