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"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear."
"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
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"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there."
"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
"My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life."
"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
"It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment."
"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."
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