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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"?.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's read more
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
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.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which read more
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.