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To say that a
work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of
men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is
very good but that most people can't eat it.
-- Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist,
Philosopher
A primary
function of art and thought is to liberate the individual
from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense
and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of
perception and judgment.
-- Lionel Trilling
1905-1975, American Critic
All great art,
and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the
mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the
anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed,
but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
-- Alexander Trocchi
1925-1983, Italian-Scottish
Novelist, Poet, Translator
If the
Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art
monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from
laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how
great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the
revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces
of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry
and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one
another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and
intolerant.
-- Leon Trotsky
1879-1940, Russian
Revolutionary
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If that's art,
I'm a Hottentot!
-- Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third
President of the USA
Art is
parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
-- Kenneth Tynan
1927-1980, British Critic
Art is a
private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a
comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need
works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond
understanding.
-- Tristan Tzara
1896-1963, Rumanian-born
French Dadaist
Art… the end
result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard
work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.
-- Source Unknown
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