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Against Interpretation (1966)
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The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure — though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.
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To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free—as opposed to rote—human response. Nothing is more decisive.
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The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.
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The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard Libby
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January 16, 1933
Died:
December 28, 2004
(aged 71)
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