"Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences……" — Alexander Theroux
"Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all."
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Alexander Theroux
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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 more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences…
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
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