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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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Elie Wiesel
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.