"All great art and literature is propaganda."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky."
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"The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists."
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"Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them."
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"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art."
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"All art is propaganda."
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"All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art."
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"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
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"In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards."
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"If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics."
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"It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands."
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"A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement."
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"What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible."
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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
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"I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could."
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"The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'"
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"When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost."
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"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."
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"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge."
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