“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter
“Art isn't meaningless… It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
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Context: I used to say that arts were talked about in the arts and leisure page. Now, why would it be arts and leisure? Why do we think that arts are leisure? Why isn't it arts and science or arts and the most important thing in your life? I think that art has become a big scarlet letter in our culture.
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