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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Art, that great undogmatized church.
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