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Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls…
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Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
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If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public…
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The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe…
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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
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