"No surprise here: Pop music is by far……" — Russell Smith
"No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is."
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39 Quotes by Russell Smith
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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