"Art is art. Everything else is everything else."

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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Marlborough Gallery (1970). “Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967”

Ad Reinhardt

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“Everything important seems already to have happened.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.”
“You are remembered for the rules you break.”
“We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.”
“The hand is where the mind meets the world.”
“I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?”

Source : "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.
“Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.”

Source : "‘Perception’ On TNT: Eric McCormack On His Schizophrenic New Role And Getting Away From ‘Will & Grace’". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.
“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

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