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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. – Theodor Adorno

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

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Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. – Salvador Dali

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For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. – William McElcheran

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