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“That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and now: the present.” quote by Will Gompertz — Download Open image

““That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and now: the present.””

Will Gompertz

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“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.”

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I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and Western, which it is still at the moment. There will be more female artists in the mix. I think we'll see art forms explored through different media - the Internet, television, books, even. We'll see art…

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Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

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I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

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“He considered the medium to be secondary: first and foremost was the idea. Only after an artist had settled on and developed a concept…

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