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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 character itself of…

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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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What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can… — Julie Burchill
I think I am upsetting the coach. — Yao Ming
You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. — John Ruskin
When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat… — Valerie Harper
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming,… — Joanne Woodward
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously,… — David Suzuki
Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something… — Angelina Jolie
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that… — Tyne Daly
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the… — Alfred Stieglitz
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway
Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me. — Mario Cantone

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