February 2012
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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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