Denis Donoghue Quotes

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Denis Donoghue

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• The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

  

  Denis Donoghue
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Exercise