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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
Explore more quotes by Don Van Vliet
"But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death."
"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any."
"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."
"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything."
"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."
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