"What I would love to see is art……" — Russell Smith

"What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks."

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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…
I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who…
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…

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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila
The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by… — Joe Baca
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment… — Judy Biggert
President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how. — Barbara Boxer
How you define a problem shapes how you address it. — John O. Brennan
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of… — Tony Campolo
Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. — Eric Alterman
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was… — Louis Agassiz
The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United… — Gaylord Nelson
Immigration and border security remain critical issues that I am committed to addressing this year. The good news is that… — John McCain

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