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Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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