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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. – Jerry Saltz

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Contrary to popular opinion, things dont go stale particularly fast in the art world. – Jerry Saltz

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