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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
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I don't get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I've put them.
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Trick
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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Aristocratic
Exquisite
Rich People
Commission
Societies
Walls
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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Everyday
Everyday Life
Movement
Surrealism
Term
Archaic
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
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Agree
Propaganda
Cliches
Expresses
Unlike
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If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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Careers
Painting
Starting
Velvet
Picasso
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Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
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Bag
Client
Delivered
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Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
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Cubism
Movement
John
Rockefeller
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
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Schoolwork
Art Form
Consider
Popular
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New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
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Museums
Rage
Wave
Eighties
Frames
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The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
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Experiments
Mass
Thrive
Truth Is
Figured
Societies
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Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
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Stolen
Valuable
Asset
Each Year
Reported
Styles
Valuable Asset
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Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Earliest
Influenced
Short Stories
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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
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Non Fiction
Stranger
Truth Is
Conclude
Observed
Intellectuals
Truth People Truth Is
Led
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Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
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Designer
Buildings
Decorate
Homes
Walls
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I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
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Embrace
Understood
Cliches
Cultures
Eager
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All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
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Blue
Class
Drawing
Evening
Rejection
Saturday
Slips
Grade
Ninth
Other Kids
Post
Rejection Slips
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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
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Blue
Blue Jeans
Bohemian
Fifty
Jeans
Sneakers
Years Ago
Today People Country
Wearing
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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
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Compromise
Democratic
Democratic Society
Postmodern
Contradictions
Ideal
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In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
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Movie
Media
Modernism
Postmodernism
Reality
Event
How Many Times
Validate
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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
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Be Careful
Careful
Machinery
Modern World
Movement
Public Relations
Speed
Tradition
Violence
Intellectuals
Proves
Relations
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
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Myth
Psychology
Roots
Truth Is
Emotions
Equation
Pop
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I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.
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Bored
If I Could
Junior High
Magazines
Selling
Staring
Thinking Me Day
Start Thinking Me
Glass
Junior
Quit
Stained
Suddenly
Windows
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