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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters alw

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. – Madeleine LEngle

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. – Madeleine LEngle

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Madeleine L’Engle
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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. – Theodor Adorno

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Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. – Marie Laurencin

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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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I cry out for order and find it only in art. – Helen Hayes

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Im just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. – Drew Barrymore

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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

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What passion cannot music raise and quell! – John Dryden

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The historian amputates reality. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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