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One of the wonderful things about a museum is how
you're jolted into confronting art from strange
and wonderful civilizations and you look and learn
and expand your horizons. |
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We have differences but we're not made different.
If you don't agree with me, you're wrong.
+ In visual arts, prodigies don't count. In music
and literature, yes, but not in art. |
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+ With its hacked contours, staring interrogatory
eyes, and general feeling of instability, Les
Demoiselles is still a disturbing painting after
three quarters of a century, a refutationof the
idea that the surprise of art, like the surprise
of fasion, must necessarily wear off. No painting
ever looked more convulsive. |
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+ Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion
of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it
clear that art is more than the sum of its material
characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday
life. |
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+ Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the
Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images
of gods. |
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