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“The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.”

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Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith 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

“Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.”

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Author:Arne Glimcher

“I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work.”

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Book:The Irrational Season

Source: The Irrational Season

“Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.”

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Author:Leopold Auer

“No great work of art is ever finished.”

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Author:Michelangelo

“The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.”

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Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated