"Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest."

-- Jerry Saltz

#Running Quotes #Art Quotes #Lying Quotes

“I live in Venice Beach so I see this all day, every day. Some people just ignore people with mental illness, pretend they're not there. They don't say "good morning" to them; they don't act like they're human. They'll get locked up, or just ignored. It's just awful.”
“Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.”
“A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.”
“I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.”
“Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you'reÂ not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.”
“I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.”
“Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built”

Source : "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.
“I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.”

Source : Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

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