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“Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.”

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Author:Michael Kimmelman

“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 sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.”

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Author:Sara Genn

“The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.”

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Book:Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries

Source: Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries

“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.”

“Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.”

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Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“Art is not a mirror but a hammer.”

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Author:John Grierson

“Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?”

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Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.”

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Author:Christopher Lasch

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”

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Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.”

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Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”

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Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook