"The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself."

-- John Updike

#Art Quotes #Wall Quotes #Educational Quotes

“I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.”
“Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.”
“To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.”

Source : "Bin Laden Is a Fundamentalist". National Review Online, October 22, 2001.
“In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.”

Source : Interview; as quoted in "Letters of the great artists", Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson , 1963, p. 247, 1956.
“It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.”
“Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.”
“When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.”

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