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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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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. – Paul Gauguin

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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters. – Paul Gauguin

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I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. – Alanis Morissette

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. – Glenn Hughes

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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. – Scott Adams

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