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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
"No one can do the learning for you."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller."
"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
"Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country."
"In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'"
"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis."
"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."
"If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet."
"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
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