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— Gertrude Stein"The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better."
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My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.
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