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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 read more
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.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is read more
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so read more
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.