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Only
conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried
on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.
Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no
moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to
principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling
out.
-- Harold Rosenberg
1906-1978, American Art
Critic, Author
What better
way to prove that you understand a subject than to make
money out of it?
-- Harold Rosenberg
1906-1978, American Art
Critic, Author
Inside you
there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested
in how things look different in moonlight.
-- Jalal-Uddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persian Sufi
Mystic Poet
Not even the
visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is
for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the
case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular,
materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the
love of god offers in the world of faith.
-- Salman Rushdie
1948-, Indian-born British
Author
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I have seen,
and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never
expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for
flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
No art can be
noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art
is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
What
distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their
sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and
third, their industry.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
Art is not a
study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal
truth.
-- George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist
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