Michael Kimmelman Quotes

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• Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.
• Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.
• The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
• Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a…
• Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art...
• The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth…
• Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who…
• Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
• Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.
• It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the…
• All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

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