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Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls…
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Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
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If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public…
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The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe…
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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in…
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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish…
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If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he…
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If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the…
— Laurence Sterne
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of…
— Jonathan Swift
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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
— E L Doctorow
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The…
— George Steiner
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
— William Butler Yeats
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