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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Art, Confidence, Doubt, Greater, Inspirational, Motivational

What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

Running, Art, Thinking, Holds, Falsely, Across

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

Art, War, Forever, Meanings, Changed, Carry

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

Art, Basic, Feelings, Groups, History, Individuals

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Tools, Loafer, Soul
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