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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to read more
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack read more
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
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.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
