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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and read more
The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent read more
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
