"Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity."

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A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

— Ben Shahn