"Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed……" — Alexander Theroux
"Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem."
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21 Quotes by Alexander Theroux
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction,…
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his…
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Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in…
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
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I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received…
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
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One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those…
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
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A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a…
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