Dejan StojanovicNature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art–a euphemism–tamed wilderness.
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If you want to test the quality of your truth, look at the conditions in which it was produced. If it is taken from an uncultivated field, taken directly from nature, it will be unpolished and heart-felt. If an artist has polished it to make it more palatable, or if he has put his own spin on it, it becomes art. It becomes something that is beautiful, but not necessarily true.
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