“Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.”
— Jerry Saltz
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Of all lies, art is the least
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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A frenzied passion for art is a
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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To engage with art, we have to
“To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.”
— Jerry Saltz
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Art begins in imitation and ends in
“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”
— Mason Cooley
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
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Photography takes an instant out of time,
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
— Dorothea Lange
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Art does not reproduce what we see;
“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.”
— Paul Klee
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Art is the symbol of the two
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
— Evelyn Waugh
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Art attracts us only by what it
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If only we could persuade galleries to
“If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.”
— Jerry Saltz
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