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"I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting."
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"Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the other, because each of these approaches tends to divide the whole world into two basic groups. The moral conformists say: 'the immoral people -- the people who 'do their own thing' -- are the problem with the world, and moral people are the solution.' The advocates of self-discovery say: 'The bigoted peole -- the people who say, 'We have the Truth' -- are the problem with the world, and progressive people are the solution."
"All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here, that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around. "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers. Both favor alcohol and are against pot."
"There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration."
"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
"Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism."
"I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated."
"He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical politics; to hear that Equality was a myth, and Multiculturalism was a fatuous dream; he thrilled at the suggestion that Art was a gift from God, blessing only a handful of masters, and most Literature merely a veil for poorly reasoned left-wing ideologies."
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"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it."
"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
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