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“Sometimes I imagine aliens from a distant planet swinging by Earth taking one glance at our art and zooming away as they whisper What the fuck”

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“A critique of someone’s work always reveals more about the critic than their understanding of the work.”

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“Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying society the last word.”

Book:Parade

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“The olives are pressed for oil, the wood is burned cooking soup. Both are consumed. Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.”

Art Michelangelo

Book:the Agony and the Ecstasy

Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy

“There are people who tell me I am cut off but to what are they connected?”

Book:Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Source: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

“The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. An ancient statue of Venus, for example, stood in a different traditional context with the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration, than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an ominous idol. Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art in tradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual—first the magical, then the religious kind.”

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Book:Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“The thing is, ballet is a collaborative experience. Each dancer sets the scene for the next one. Even when you’re doing a solo, it’s not just about you: you are simply borrowing everyone’s attention for a few minutes, before passing it on. Ballet is about harmony. And harmony can only be achieved in the spirit of teamwork.”

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Book:Kisses and Croissants

Source: Kisses and Croissants

“The aim of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. You are not a servile copyist, but a poet!”

Author:Honoré de Balzac

“If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.”

Source: The Love of Devotion