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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.


Mao Zedong

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HANS HAACKE I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
CARL ANDRE There is no such thing as modern art. There is art,and there is advertising.
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it&#...
BILLY AL BENGSTON Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can'...
MICHAEL HEIZER I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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MADELEINE L'ENGLE I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's ...
SARAH JONES Art classes teach how to make art, but the essence, of art is still the essence of you.
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CAROL HANSEN Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order...
E. M. FORSTER Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order...
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J C A ROWE There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, ...
JAMES GURNEY There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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LESLIE FIEDLER The slides are the way art history is taught. It's the way artists and art historians learn about ar...
MATT DISTEL Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
BEN OKRI Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t...
ANGELA CARTER Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mea...
EZRA POUND Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
ROGER STONE There is no must in art because art is free.
WASSILY KANDINSKY There is no must in art because art is free
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WILLIAM DRUMMOND Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don'...
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RALPH BAKSHI Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
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SETH GODIN Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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PETER B. MEDAWAR If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensel...
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MORRISSEY Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
BARRY EISLER Art is for everyone. A lot of people think that art is this thing [reserved] for a select group of e...
CONNIE CATION Art knows no boundaries.... Expressive art; Timeless piece; Artistic representation of feelings with...
MAKO ANTENOR There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass...
JOE WRIGHT I make art for the sake of art . . . and for my own selfish gratification, because I’m an artis...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Art is such an important part of our culture.
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SOL LEWITT This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer'...
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
HENRI QUEUILLE Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas sta...
FLETCHER KNEBEL Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art a...
ANDY WARHOL Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art...Making money is art and working is art ...
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sl...
W.H. AUDEN There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. F...
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BRIAN ENO All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact tha...
UPTON SINCLAIR The struggle against a purpose in art is always a struggle against the moral tendency in art - again...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
TAHAR RAHIM Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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JOHN MELLENCAMP Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
YU CAO Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
DAVID BAILEY Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
ANDY WARHOL The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men
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JEAN-LUC GODARD Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forc...
AMIRI BARAKA Thought is more important than art. . . . To revere art and have no understanding of the process tha...
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