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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

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Duane Michals

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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. and in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. washington, lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

It is neither art for art, nor art against art. i am for art, but for art that has nothing to do with art. art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with art.

It is not given to man to know the whole truth. his duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. god alone knows absolute truth. therefore, i have often said, truth is god. it follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. this is god's attribute alone. relative truth is all we know. therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. the more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. when art is true, it is one with nature. this is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersmichelangelo, czanne, seurat, and renoir. the secret of my best work is that it is mexican.

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. we don't live here. we live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

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