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The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

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The big moment came when it was decided to paint. . . Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

Political, Gestures, Moral, Paint, Aesthetic
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

Design, Event, Events, Moment, Painter, Space

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Art, Believe, Causes, Contains, Society, Today

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Claims, Culture, Education, Purpose, Repetitions, Senseless

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

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Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

Achieve, Art, Determination, Make, Memories, Miseries
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