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— Camille Paglia"The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images."
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
— Paul Cezanne
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When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.
— John Ruskin
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