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Art Historian Inspirational Quotes (1961)

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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.
Rebecca Solnit
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Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
Camille Paglia
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
John Ruskin
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There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
Russell Lynes
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Camille Paglia
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Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.
John Ruskin
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A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
Rebecca Solnit
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Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.
Robert Hughes
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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
Camille Paglia
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No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.
John Addington Symonds
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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux
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A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.
Clement Greenberg
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Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.
Frank O'Hara
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The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.
Clement Greenberg
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Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.
Arthur Symons
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Death is only a small interruption.
Anita Brookner
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Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art Modernism used art to call attention to art.
Clement Greenberg
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Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
Jerry Saltz
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Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.
Norbert Lynton
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
Philip Johnson
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
Andre Malraux
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