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Modern Art

Two quotes I liked from Adam Gopnik’s article about van Gogh’s ear in the January 4 edition of the New Yorker.

On art-making:
“Where art since the Renaissance had attempted to limit luck in a system of inherited purpose and patterns, modern art demands that you press the pedal as hard as you can, and pray.”
On van [...]