“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”
Source: Le Naturalisme Au Theatre
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The Days Are Just Packed
Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
“Video art is art that will stretch the boundaries of the art world.”
Gregory Battcock early 1970s, as quoted in: "Art history course 2013-14," at uchicago.edu, Department of Art History, 18 Feb. 2014.
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages

“The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.”
Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 162)
“The arts have always transcended national boundaries as the haiku demonstrates.”
“There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.”
All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)


“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Variant: All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Source: Pensées