Michael Kimmelman Quotes

#1. All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

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#2. [Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art - not to mention between art and life.

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#3. The consolation of art comes in many forms ... For some it is making, for others it is having.

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#4. Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully ... about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece.

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#5. Art, not unlike raising children ... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

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#6. Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream ...

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#7. Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

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#8. It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

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#9. Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

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#10. Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art ...

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