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Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

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Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

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Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.

Alexander Stoddart

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

Alexander Stoddart

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Alexander Stoddart

Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.

Alexander Stoddart

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe Dramatist

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot Playwright

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

Alexander Rodchenko Artist

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Guy Davenport Writer

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

John Ruskin Art Critic

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist

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