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Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

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Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is…
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read…
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one…
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The…
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and…
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present…
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction…

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the… — C.S. Lewis
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks… — Rene Magritte
The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you… — Ignatius of Antioch
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. — Clement Greenberg
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the… — William Lilly
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel… — Marcel Proust
Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that… — Michael Scott
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — C.S. Lewis
For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare
I'm just tryna survive, where they shoot over nothing. Either shoot or get shot, either using or hustlin. — Starlito

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