"The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a very painful way to learn - by writing and then discovering that I don't know what the f**k I'm talking about. But you remember the lessons vividly."

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Jonathan Santlofer

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“I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.”
“I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
“When it's in the slot, give it the lot!”
“With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.”
“My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.”
“May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth.”
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
“I felt mocked. "That's what I get for trusting you." He took a step back. "Excuse me! Trust doesn't mean you get the response you want from someone, but that you'll get an honest response, and that the other person will stick by you even when you can't agree." Stick by you for how long, through how much? I wondered. What is the expiration date on trust?”

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