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“Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.”

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Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.”

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Author:Kenneth Clark

“The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have an artful way of approaching them. You do a dance for them, you get them to imagine being interconnected, and to imagine being free of their suffering, and not so self involved, through art that draws them out. Then you, and they, are all established in what's called a Buddha-verse, or Buddha-land”

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Author:Robert Thurman

“Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.”

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Author:Brian Boyd

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”

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Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.”

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Author:Brian Eno