"I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters."

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Source : "Showboat World" by Jack Vance, DAW Books, (p. 111), 1981.

Jack Vance

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“I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas. I mean, there was nothing to express there, except maybe their own personal feelings. But if they're not - if they don't have a grounding in the way these things have been expressed by other people down through the centuries, then they're lost.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”
“Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities.”
“Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.”
“My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.”
“In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.”

Source : Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.441, Springer Science & Business Media
“I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.”
“All Children Have Brain Damage!”

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