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“Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.”

Quote by Reynolds Price

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Reynolds Price, born on February 1, 1933, and died on January 20, 2011, was a renowned American poet. His poetry, known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, has won the hearts of readers. Price's works cover a wide range of themes, including love, nature, history, and religion. His poetry has won numerous literary awards and has had a significant impact on contemporary American poetry. more

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“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.”

Source: A common room: essays, 1954-1987

“Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.”

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“As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.”

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“Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women”

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“I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.”

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“The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's nothing wrong with this, but it stands at odds with a contemporary art world that looks to the future for inspiration. We value complexity and innovation, and distrust saccharine pictures of the past.”

“Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.”

Sky Blue Highways Blue Sky

Book:The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

Source: The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”

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“Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.”

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“As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.”

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Author:Dave Hickey