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“Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.”

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Author:Max Jacob

“Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.”

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Author:Marge Piercy

“Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.”

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Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.”

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Author:Kurt Schwitters

“People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.”

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Author:Jim Woodring

“The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.”

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Book:Richard Prince

Source: Richard Prince

“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

“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.”

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Book:The Painted Word

Source: The Painted Word

“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”

Source: Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy