Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852