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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 4.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Wealth." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Wealth.” The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

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James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Scribner's Magazine. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.

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James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Henry James: Complete Stories 1892-1898. Vol. 4. Library of America, 1996.

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Robeson, Paul. "The Artist Must Take Sides." National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of the Spanish Refugee Children. 24 June 1937, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Our Note Book." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 34, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Illustrated London Times, 5 May 1928.

Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

Roger Ebert

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Ebert, Roger. "A Depression-Era Story of Old Age, Tough and Level in its Gaze." rogerebert.com, 11 Feb. 2010, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/make-way-for-tomorrow-1937.

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Gauguin, Paul. "Un lettre de paul gauguin: a propos de sevres et du demier." Le Soir, 25 Apr. 1895.

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Gauguin, Paul. The Writings of a Savage, translated by Eleanor Levieux, edited by Daniel Guérin. Da Capo Press, 1996.

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Beecher, Henry Ward. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887.

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Greenberg, Clement. The Nation. 7 Apr. 1945.

All art is biographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini

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Fellini, Federico. Quoted in The Atlantic, Dec. 1965.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Cameron, Julia Margaret and Violet Hamilton. Annals of My Glass House: Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. University of Washington Press, 1997.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Louise Bourgeois

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Kuspit, Donald Burton. Interviewed by Louise Bourgeois. 1988.

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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VI." 10 Dec. 1774, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Glenn Gould

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Gould, Glenn. Commencement address. Commencement ceremony. 6 Nov. 1982, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Adorno, Theodor. "Über den Fetischcharakter in der Musik und die Regression des Hörens [On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening]." Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Journal of Social Research], 1938.

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Adorno, Theodor. "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening." Modernism: An Anthology of Documents, edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou. University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Instead of looking at things, look between things.

John Baldessari

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Baldessari, John. Interviewed by Karen Wright. Art in America, Oct. 2009.

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Connolly, Cyril. Enemies of Promise. George Routledge & Sons, 1938, ch. 14.

Museums have today become the new churches.

Christian Boltanski

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Boltanski, Christian. Interview with Tamar Garb. Christian Boltanski. Phaidon Press, 1997, p. 11.

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Hubbard, Elbert. "Thomas Arnold." Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers. The Roycrofters, 1908.

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Auden, W. H. Quoted in World Within World, by Stephen Spender. Hamish Hamilton/Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951.