"Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted"

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Source : Max Ernst, Karin von Maur, Tate Gallery, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1991). “Max Ernst: a retrospective”

Max Ernst

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“All art is propaganda.”
“I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.”
“The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.
“Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world.”
“Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.”

Source : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”
“People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.”
“I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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