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“History has this way of not getting the joke.”

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“The tables are moved by spirit - paintings and other works of art are are locked away. And the soul inside becomes ever more inspired as the auction price goes up!”

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“Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.”

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Book:Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

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“if ‘caged’ then a Man, if ‘freed’ then a “God”

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“Every eye holds its own vision, even if blurred the vision never goes away, and for the same reason every author must have written, to be read and understood in a language that goes beyond words.”

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“Within the confines of the world, we puppet through varied strings pulling in their own relevant bars”

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“The first step in any encounter with art is to do nothing, to just watch, giving your eye a chance to absorb all that's there. We shouldn't think "This is good," or "This is bad," or "This is a Baroque picture which means X, Y, Z." Ideally, for the first minute we shouldn't think at all. Art needs time to perform its work on us.”

Art Museums Art History Art Appreciation

Book:All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Source: All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“My painting is not violent; it’s life that is violent. I have endured physical violence, I have even had my teeth broken. Sexuality, human emotion, everyday life, personal humiliation (you only have to watch television)—violence is part of human nature. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. You are born, you fuck, you die. What could be more violent than that?”

Life Art Violence

Author:Francis Bacon

“The Enlightenment project was doomed from the start, though, for though human beings run out of money, time, resources, energy, and desire, they never run out of the past. A war on the past will necessarily be endless, for no sooner has a man conquered the past than the very act of conquering becomes the past, as well.”

Art Beauty Conservatism Good Taste French Revolution

Book:Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity

Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity

“Galli to Michelangelo: “In the days of the emperors, you would have been designing colosseums, baths, and reservoirs. Instead, you’ve created a soul.”

Art Michelangelo

Book:The Agony and the Ecstacy

Source: The Agony and the Ecstacy

“Consider the cicadas...there's the droning of the cicadas, as a technical phenomenon of sound waves. Then there's the mystery of the noise, its vehement formlessness. Neither of these things can be painted. I paint what lies in between. When I paint, I am saying yes to something that can be neither agreed nor disagreed with.”

Art Creativity Creation Metaphysics

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