There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity......
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have....
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test....
"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic.
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