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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
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Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
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The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
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Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
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The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
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The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
September 11, 1903
Died:
August 6, 1969
(aged 65)
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