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- "Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art."― Camille Paglia
- "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."― John Ciardi
- "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."― Herman Melville