Donald Kuspit quotes
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“Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.”
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“The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.”
-- Donald KuspitSource : Donald Kuspit (2013). “Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it.”
-- Donald KuspitSource : Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s”
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“Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.”
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Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
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“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
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“Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.”
Source : "Working class heroes" by Shirley Dent, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.
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“Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?”
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