"The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation."

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Source : "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". 1989.

Hilton Kramer

#Art Quotes #Explanation Quotes #Maximum Quotes

“Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?”
“One man can make another's life so much better.”
“I always work from an outline.”

Source : "The traveling sisterhood of 'How to Be Bad'". Interview with Sonja Bolle, www.latimes.com. June 1, 2008.
“I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny â€” that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.”
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
“There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other, namely the ever-increasing size of the world's population”

Source : "TV host Chris Packham: My really wild idea to tax all kids". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2011.
“It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.”
“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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