"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
-Paul Gauguin
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"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.“
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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
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