„An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.“

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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„I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.“
— Marcel Duchamp
„But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.“
— Agatha Christie
„I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.“
— Camille Paglia
„Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.“
— Walt Whitman