"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art."
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"Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature."
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"The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness."
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"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion."
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"'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble."
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"How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?"
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"Art is a leap into the dark."
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"Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."
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"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction."
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"There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life."
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"Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time."
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"Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art."
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"The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death."
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"All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing."
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"My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it."
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"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."
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"In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor."
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"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."
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"The artist is the antenna of the race."
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"Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list."
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