The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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But I owe something to Vincent Van Gogh, and that is . . . 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
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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