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Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange. Interviewed by Mark Durden. Phaidon Press, 2006, introduction, n.p.

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Close, Chuck. Inside the Painter's Studio. Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Originally spoken during an interview with Joe Fig, 2009.

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

Leon Trotsky

Literature and Revolution

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Trotsky, Leon. Литература и революция [Literature and Revolution]. Soviet Government, 1924.

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Trotsky, Leon. Literature and Revolution, edited by William Keach. Haymarket Books, 2005.

My work is completed by the viewer.

Bridget Riley

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Riley, Bridget. "The Life of Riley." Interviewed by Jonathan Jones. Guardian, July 4, 2008, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jul/05/art1.

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Rothko, Mark. Quoted in Mark Rothko, written by Jeffrey Weiss. Yale University Press, 2000.

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Rodin, Auguste and S. K. Star. Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Notebook. Century, 1917, p. 7.

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Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

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Mutu, Wangechi. Quoted in 33 Artists in 3 Acts, written by Sarah Thornton. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, p. 59. Originally an interview with Sarah Thornton, c. 2013.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Amelie Bosquet. July 1864.

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West, Rebecca. The Court and the Castle. Yale University Press, 1957.

Now the art world has become the art market.

Eric Fischl

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Fischl, Eric. Public conversation between Eric Fischl and Robert Berlind. 19 Mar. 2014, National Academy, New York, NY, USA.

All art is collaboration.

John Millington Synge

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Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts. J. W. Luce and Company, 1907, preface.

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Synge, John Millington. "The Playboy of the Western World." The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays. Penguin Classics, 1997, preface.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Talking about the novel Bleak House. c. 1940, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA. Lecture.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Charles Dickens: Bleak House." Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Alberti, Leon Battista. De Pictura [On Painting]. c. 1450, bk. 2.

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Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting, translated by John R. Spencer. Yale University Press, 1966, bk. 2.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

John Ruskin

The Stones of Venice

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Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice: The Foundations. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1851, ch. 4.

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Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 11, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 4.

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Updike, John. "John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43." Interviewed by Charles Thomas Samuels. The Paris Review, Issue 45, Winter 1968.

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Duchamp, Marcel. Audio Arts. 1974. Originally a recorded interview by George Heard Hamilton, Richard Hamilton, and Charles Mitchell, London, 1959.

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Rothko, Mark. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961. Originally stated in an interview with Selden Rodman in 1957.

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Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Addison's Cato." Cato, written by Joseph Addison. 14 Apr. 1713, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, UK, I. 1-5.

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Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato." Pope: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series). Everyman's Library, 2018, I. 1-5.

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Beckett, Samuel. Proust. Chatto and Windus, 1930.