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Can Art Change The World?
From Adbusters, August Issue of 2005
Robert Storr (Critic/Curator/Artist/NYU Professor):
I don’t think art can change the world. There are moments in history—in the 1930s and the 1920s and since—where very direct address of general social problems by artists has had something of an effect. It’s hard to say what it was or how to quantify it, but it’s undeniable they spoke for the...
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A painter goes out not because he wants to paint a picture, but because of the beauty and comparison of one spot of color with another, not a literary beauty but beauty because it stirs him. Painting is a matter of impulse, it is a matter of getting out to nature and having some joy in registering it. If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty...
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I love the fact that Dianna Agron is an 826LA... →
“And then the vampire bites off the top of a building and loses his teeth. Another vampire says, “Why are you crying? Those are you baby teeth” And he says, “No they’re not. They’re my adult teeth.”
If you saw “Where the Wild Things Are” you probably smiled through the imaginative vampire story…
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Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision— it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so. The world is waiting for men with vision— it is not interested in mere pictures. What people subconsciously are interested in is the expression of beauty, something that helps them through the humdrum day, something that shocks them out of themselves and something that makes them...
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