The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed.

Mark Rothko

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Artistic development Art

Speaker

Mark Rothko

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

United States

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Rothko, Mark. Quoted in Mark Rothko, written by Jeffrey Weiss. Yale University Press, 2000.

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.