"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

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"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."

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"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

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