As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
