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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.
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.
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the read more
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.
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of read more
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and read more
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and read more
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
