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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Our intimacy with works of art

Objects of art not merely interest and absorb, they move us; we are not merely involved with them, but concerned with them, and care about them; we treat them in special ways, invest them with a value which normal people otherwise reserve only for other people - and with the same kind of scorn and outrage. They mean something to us, not just the way statements do, but the way people do.

- Stanley Cavell