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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”
Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
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“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”
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“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”
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“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
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“Moralists have no place in an art gallery.”
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“I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.”
Source : Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center
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“If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
