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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.


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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.



A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.



Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future



Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.



Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.



A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.



Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.



Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.



Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.



Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.





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How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.



Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.

Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.



But when there's no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking.

But when there's no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking.



If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value.

If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value.



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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.



I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.



I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men



Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.



Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.



We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.

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