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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
In order to grow out of the receptive into the productive orientation, he [man] must relate himself to the world artistically and not only philosophically or scientifically.
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
His art with nature's workmanship at strife,
As if the dead the living should exceed.
..we [Impressionists] are carrying on a despairing fight & need all our forces.
Cultural products that present people who have no money or power as innately stupid or depraved, and thus unworthy of money or power, are in the interests of the ruling class and the power structure as it stands.
Meredith Tax Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve? (1972)
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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