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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Art is anything done by a man or woman on paper, canvas or a musical keyboard that people pretend to understand and sometimes buy.
We must remember that art is art.
Still, on the other hand, water is water and east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
It's not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall is a painting, and if you can walk around it, it's a sculpture.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.