An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.
David Foster Wallace
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us mo... JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi... JOHN GREEN A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Take a chance of your life, you're risking nothing in this planet. NAZIM AMBALATH What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Coach is very intense and he wants us to do our best off the court and on the court. He expects so m... KRYSTLE HORTON One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to f... MARILYN FRENCH Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and go... GARY HAMEL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in... KEVIN MCPHERSON ECKHOFF A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts rais... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenaci... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Compassion brings us peace of mind. It brings a smile to our face and genuine smiles bring us closer... AULIQ-ICE Compassion brings us peace of mind. It brings a smile to our face and genuine smiles bring us closer... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. CRAIG GROESCHEL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh... MARY ESSELMAN And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not on... JEAN BAUDRILLARD The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit
Tha... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It starts with the coach. He gets us ready. We're very prepared. You look at our second unit, even o... ADRIAN GRIFFIN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ... LAILAH GIFTYAKITA She told me to find a girl worth fighting for. The one that doesn’t come easy. JAMIE MCGUIRE I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ... K.A. LINDE It is the giving wolf, who is also the killing wolf.... MASTER CHIEF 117 Smiles well up like bubbles under water and slip across your mouth without you realising its happeni... CHLOE THURLOW The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe... SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own exper... SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art / and, by analogy, our own exper... SUSAN SONTAG Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ... MARCEL PROUST Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou... E. B. WHITE For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar... GORE VIDAL To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT SCHUMANN One day the world will look upon research
on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
... LEONARDO DAVINCI Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i... A. ALVAREZ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. JOHN LECARRE Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le... ERICA JONG I have been no more than a medium, as it were. HENRI MATISSE The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel... ALEXANDER ELIOT Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco... MELVIN MADDOCKS Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. OSCAR LEVANT The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... MARIA LENHART Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior amo... CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where the... SAIOM SHRIVER Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. MIKE ROYKO Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p... EDWARD STEICHEN I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. OSCAR LEVANT There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ANSEL ADAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. PAUL VALERY Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. AMBROSE BIERCE When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li... G. K. CHESTERTON Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. HENRI MATISSE I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ROY LICHTENSTEIN Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. AL CAPP Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. TWYLA THARP I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i... CLAES OLDENBURG Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. MARIE LAURENCIN Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ANDRE GIDE The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da... CYRIL CONNOLLY Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Give me a museum and I'll fill it. PABLO PICASSO I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true ge... BECK Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in... ANDREA DWORKIN Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ANDY WARHOL An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reaso... ANDY WARHOL
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and lov... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men’s Room, does Sternberg, and strug... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesce... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfact... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worri... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of m... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Blue Springs Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Independence, Mo. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for t... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others’ self esteem simply as a function... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a lit... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I don't think he was used to patients who were already aware of what their real problem was. He was ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he di... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE -when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade l... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE *One clue that there’s something not quite real about sequential time the way you experience it i... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Atwater knew — as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never sa... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE (..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a p... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If I understand you right,' he says, 'you're saying that you're basically a calculating manipulative... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function o... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of wha... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and s... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit�... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won't be asked again. Say something like I'm terr... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfi... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which su... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness �... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fac... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE