"Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Arne Glimcher

#Art Quotes #Hawks Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.”

Source : "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.
“These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.”
“I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.”
“If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press
“There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional.”
“Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.”
“All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.”

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