"Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality."

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Source : Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

Thomas Hoving

#Art Quotes #Quality Quotes #Levels Quotes

“If you love god, burn a church.”
“You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.”

Source : K.J. Bishop (2004). “The Etched City”, p.99, Spectra
“Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.”
“However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.”
“To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.”
“If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.”

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