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— Nadine Gordimer"The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison."
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In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
— Patti Smith
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The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.
— Russell Hoban
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