Arts and Artists

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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 W. Adorno

"Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values." - A. Alvarez

"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem." - Lindsay Anderson

"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman." - Guillaume Apollinaire

"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere." - Guillaume Apollinaire

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb." - Jean Arp

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