“Normal people do not create art.”
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American writer 1903–1989Related quotes
“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”
Source: Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering and Management (2003), p. 309; partly cited in: Kurt A. Richardson, Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley (2006) Systems Thinking and Complexity Science. p. 39
“We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art.”
Introducing our Argument
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
Context: We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd … Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste…? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?
“Only the poor can create art.”
From a public forum http://fora.tv/2009/04/28/The_Posthuman_Dada_Guide_Tzara_and_Lenin_Play_Chess held at the Los Angeles Public Library, 28 April 2010.
“To sense the invisible and to be able to create it — that is art.”
Statement of 1950, as quoted in Hans Hofmann (1998), ed. Helmut Friedel and Tina Dickey
1950s
“War is the normal state of the people.”
"Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (August 2, 1943)
1940s