my favorite art quotes..

"One gives to one's art what one has not been capable of giving to one's own existence."

"We have Art in order not to perish of Truth."
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I don't remember who said those.
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."(Andy Warhol)

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The vice called surrealism is the unsystematic and passionate use of the narcotic image, or rather the uncontrolled provocation of it for its own sake and for whatever unforeseen upheavals and metamorphoses it renders visible; for every image, whenever it strikes, forces you to revise the entire universe.
We shall prevail! To begin with, we shall destroy the civilization you set such store by, and in which you are petrified like fossils in schist. The western world is condemned to death. We are the defeatists....Laugh if you like, but we are the ones who will always offer our hand to the enemy.

Aragon, as quoted in Russell, Max Ernst: His Life and Work

Have You Ever Slapped a Corpse?

Louis Aragon
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Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge.You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts.

I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt.

Shake the machine and it goes out of order;

Shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.
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Ain't it the truth?
And yeah,I forget who said that one too..

You all got any favorite thoughts on art that inspire you?