The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
Kenneth Tynan
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
Gore Vidal
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
E. B. White
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Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.
Jon Witcomb
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
Angela Carter
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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Edward Gordon Craig
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John LeCarre
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis
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