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“The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.”

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Author:Joseph Plaskett

“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”

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Book:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.”

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Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.”

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Author:Antony Gormley

“Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.”

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Author:Julian Schnabel

“Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.”

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Author:Zhang Xiaogang

“Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.”

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Author:Juliette Lewis

“They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.”

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Author:Sean Lennon

“All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.”

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Author:Constantin Stanislavski

“The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.”

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Author:Leonardo Drew

“You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“Art is alive because it is mortal.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.”

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Author:Jeff Koons

“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.”

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Book:Margherita Dolce Vita

Source: Margherita Dolce Vita