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“The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.”

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Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.”

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.”

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Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.”

“The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.”

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Book:The Works of Victor Hugo ...

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...

“An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.”

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Book:Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing

Source: Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing

“Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He sought fixed rules. Today, instead, it would be helpful to find all those rules that show how and why the universe is not fixed - how this dynamism develops and acts. Then maybe we will be able to explain many things, perhaps even art, because the old instruments of judgment, the old aesthetics, are no longer of any use to us - so much so that we no longer know what's beautiful and what isn't.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.”

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Author:Vik Muniz

“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.”

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Book:On Poets and Others

Source: On Poets and Others

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”

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Author:Leonard Bernstein