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She puts away four small plastic cups of red wine and then stares at a painting of a topless girl with a large silver sword for a half hour and then she begins to think: You call this art? This isn__ art! This is a joke! All of you are a joke! Fuck you and fuck Jeff Koons and the rest of those _80s art-star wannabes. Where__ the art that makes people weep? Where__ the art that makes people want to go to church? None of this is the least bit interesting. All of this stuff, all of this is so self-aware. It__ for ironic art snobs. I want something brilliant. I want something stunning. I want something that makes me look in wonder_

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An artist adopts a radically different view regarding the importance of time than a businessperson does. Instead of perceiving time as a merchantable facet doled out incrementally according to marketplace demands, an artist portrays time as an agent of destruction. The irrevocability of time frames the human condition. Time might the medium of all human experience, but its passage obscures and eventually obliterates all human endeavors. Time unchecked leads to a blank slate of nothingness. Time__ destructive march towards meaningless is arrested through memory and art depicting humankind__ struggles and accomplishments.

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Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary.

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Madeleine L'Engle

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art