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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…
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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
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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…
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Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one…
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It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The…
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The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.
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Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.
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The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and…
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The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
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The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present…
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Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…
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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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The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and…
— Clement Greenberg
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... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of…
— Art Buchwald
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If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what…
— Roger Ebert
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Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
— Criss Jami
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When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to…
— Vera Nazarian
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I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound…
— Stefan Hell
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It is surely time, I fire up my Lego Rocket Ship, and return, to the place I came from, a World, on…
— Eric Nickel
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Far to much blood. Far to many tears. Fate has mocked me, Walked at my side, All of my years. I wanted…
— Eric Nickel
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