Quote by Paul Gauguin
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive l

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of arts audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. – Paul Gauguin

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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – Paul Gauguin

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Beauty
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But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself. – Paul Gauguin

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Artist, The
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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades – even if its now close to aesthetic kudzu. – Jerry Saltz

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Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. – Edward Hopper

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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. – Blaise Pascal

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