Art Quotes - Rage Edition

"To hell with culture, culture as a thing added like a sauce to otherwise unpalatable stale fish!"
Eric Gill (1882-1940)

from Herbert Read's "To Hell with Culture", Routledge 2002

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"It used to be that painters were mad and picture-buyers clever.
Now the painters are clever and the picture-buyers mad."
Giorgio de Chirico

"Freedom is not given. It must be taken."
Meret Oppenheim

from "Surrealism", Taschen 2011

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"There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood."
W. Somerset Maugham

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"All the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!"
Upton Sinclair