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COME INTO MY CLOSET
At a meeting on finding funding for community art groups, I
mentioned that the proposed government donations came with a price
... that of freedom.
The speaker, who interestingly, is the director of a large local
public gallery, made a joke of it saying "Let's see how free you are
painting in a closet."
Welcome to my closet.
"The museums are a mass of deceptions; the majority of those who
claim to be interested in art are impostors. And I don't understand
why there are more prejudices about art in revolutionary countries
than there are in conservative countries. The paintings in museums
are full of our stupidities, our mistakes, and our spiritual
poverty. We have transformed them into ignoble objects." (254)
Picasso
254. Domenico Porzio and Marco Valsecchi, Understanding Picasso,
(N.Y., Newsweek Books, 1973), p.83
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