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Art Historian Inspirational Quotes (1962)

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We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.
Rebecca Solnit
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
Rudolf Arnheim
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
Camille Paglia
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A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
Wendy Beckett
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
John Ruskin
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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
Camille Paglia
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Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
Paola Antonelli
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end . . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Walter Pater
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
John Berger
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The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this the mode I prefer is indirect.
Teju Cole
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The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Jerry Saltz
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Death is not a journey into an unknown land it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
John Ruskin
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
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Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
John Ruskin
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Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
Edmond de Goncourt
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
John Ruskin
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While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
Jerry Saltz
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It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.
John Szarkowski
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Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
Harold Rosenberg
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For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.
Rebecca Solnit
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger
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I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness
Frank O'Hara
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