“Art is about paying attention.”—Laurie Anderson

“Art isn’t something you marry. It’s something you rape.”—Edgar Degas

“Art is seduction, not rape.”—Susan Sontag

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”—Frank Zappa

“The artist must say it without saying it.”—Duke Ellington

“What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescaline, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.”—Aldous Huxley

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