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Establish enigmas, not explanations.


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



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



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



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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.



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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.



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I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.





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