Top 11 Quotes by Michael Kimmelman

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.

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

Dream, Art, Lying

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

Reading, Writing, School

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

Michael Kimmelman

Art, Form, Consolation

Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

Michael Kimmelman

Art, Sublime, Clue

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

Michael Kimmelman

Education, Art, Ordinary

Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC

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 that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

Michael Kimmelman

Truth, Stories, World

"My Kid Could Paint That". Documentary, Family, Mystery, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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

Art, Children, Sacrifice

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

Freedom, War, Artist