"Drawing used to be a civilized thing to……" — Michael Kimmelman
"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 boon to happiness."
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11 Quotes by Michael Kimmelman
Michael Kimmelman has 11 quotes on this site.
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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.
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Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the…
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The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
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Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art...
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The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish.…
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Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that…
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Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce…
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Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left…
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It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story,…
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All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
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More Boon Quotes
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
— Dwight L. Moody
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of…
— Carolyn Wells
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an…
— Mark Twain
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Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have…
— Albert Einstein
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all…
— David Mamet
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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the…
— Garrison Keillor
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
— William Graham Sumner
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I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't…
— Margaret Caroline Anderson
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Dodd-Frank was passed. ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This…
— Mitt Romney
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Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole…
— Joseph Auslander
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