"Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at"

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Arthur Danto

#Art Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it.”
“For you, someone kind of quiet and mysterious-" "I'm not mysterious," I interrupted. "You are a little. And sometimes people don't know whether to interpret silence as confidence or fear. They're looking at you like you're a bug so maybe you'll feel like you are one.”
“Men fall in private long before they fall in public.”
“Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art”
“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”
“When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.”
“And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.”
“But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.”

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