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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.
-- Beck
1959-, American Musician,
Singer, Songwriter
Art! Who
comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this
great goddess?
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer
No one should
drive a hard bargain with an artist.
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer
Any artist
should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond
the need to reason elaborately.
-- Saul Bellow
1915-, American Novelist
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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.
-- Saul Bellow
1915-, American Novelist
The greater
the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the
sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by
the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and
the truly new is criticized with aversion.
-- Walter Benjamin
1982-1940, German Critic,
Philosopher
I can't tell
you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often
art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent
and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it
has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this,
becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible,
the enduring, guts, and honor.
-- John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic
What is art
but a way of seeing?
-- Thomas Berger
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