Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
I think art can reflect tragedy.
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
Death is an art, you know.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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