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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.
No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.
Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.