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Widarto Adi
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”
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“the only thing in which I have been actually thorough has been in being thoroughly unprepared. Alfred Stieglitz”
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“If a viewer responds to Botticelli’s Venus with an erotic desire, as if she is a pinup, he is actually not appreciating her for her beauty. And if someone enjoys looking at a Gauguin painting of Tahiti while fantasizing about going on vacation there, then they no longer have an aesthetic relation to its beauty.”
― But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
― But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!”
― Don Juan
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!”
― Don Juan
Widarto’s 2025 Year in Books
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