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Michael Kimmelman - From the Architecture category:
It seems to me extremely dubious to be constructing buildings based on drawings by Wright as if these are actually Wright's works. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Architecture category:
Wright was notoriously ingenious about changing his designs in the process, and these drawings cannot be said to represent anything but one stage in the concept of a design by Wright. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Art category:
Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Artists category:
-on Lucian Freud, The New York Times...
There was always the work. Sometimes he succeeded at it, sometimes not. That's the fate of every great artist and any good one. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Collectors category:
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Deception category:
I mean, all art in some ways is a lie. It looks like a picture of something, but it isn't that thing, it's a representation of that thing... (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Drawing category:
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. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Education category:
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art... (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Freedom category:
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Illusion category:
-on Caravaggio's Madonna of the Pilgrims...
The work is one of those miracles of illusionism, and back in the 17th century the sight of it must have been akin to what people in the 20th century felt on first seeing movies or television. It was the shock of recognition. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Mirrors category:
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... (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Modernism category:
Rauschenberg 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. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Perception category:
Heightened perception is the goal: becoming more aware of how you see, not just what you see. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Realism category:
Caravaggio's hyper-realism, a magician's conjuring trick, I have come to regard as a perfect metaphor for great art, which declines to make obvious its deepest truths, leaving us to decipher them if we can. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Sacrifice category:
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Standards category:
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Truth category:
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. (Michael Kimmelman)
Michael Kimmelman - From the Writing category:
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. (Michael Kimmelman)
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