"Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered."

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Jorg Immendorff

#Artist Quotes #Social Quotes #Function Quotes

“What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”
“Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.”

Source : "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.
“Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.”
“Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.”
“I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.”
“You don't really need to engage your visual sense, because the natural wiring of the human psyche is to monitor the environment through sound, not through sight. But we're convinced through modern conditions that we have to look at everything, and that creates stress in our life, because we're trying to solve problems in ways that are much more time consuming, not efficient, and not fun.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.”
“You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ***** legally.”

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