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“This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.”

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Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.”

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Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“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

“Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.”

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Author:John French Sloan

“Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.”

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Author:Nicholas Serota

“I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.”

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Author:Martin Firrell

“I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.”

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Author:Reverend Malcolm Boyd

“The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.”

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Author:Ryan Hurst

“Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form, or material. My feeling is that most paintings, most films, most music, most literature and, indeed, most comics fail as "Art." A masterpiece in any genre, form or material is equally "good." It's ridiculous to impose a hierarchy of value on art. The division between high and low art is one that cannot be defended because it has no correlation to aesthetic response.”

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Author:Phoebe Gloeckner