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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, read more
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which read more
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential read more
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of read more
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to read more
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
