„Art’s purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.“

— John Cage

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„The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us“
— Gloria Steinem
„What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it.“
— T.S. Eliot
„What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.“
— Marcel Duchamp
„Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.“
— Ayn Rand