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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. – Ambrose Bierce

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To us, who live in the nineteenth century, any century is a suitable subject for art except our own. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. – Ville Valo

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Lets talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. Its a Gigantic project. – Joseph Beuys

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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. – Karl Marx

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