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“Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.”

Knows Art Happens Artist Standards Grateful Nobody Knows Good Art

Author:Alice Neel

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.”

Thinking Art Made Important Happens Form Special Standards Jazz Say Anything Ambiguous

Author:Stefon Harris

“It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.”

Ends Happens Becoming Elements Standards Consumers Apprehension Standards Of Living

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.”

People Knows Stories Happens Six Standards Hollywood Screens Villain

Author:Albert Brooks