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Russell Lynes Quotes about Art

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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Russell Lynes
Art, Writing, Editing

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

Russell Lynes
Art, Mean, Challenges

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Russell Lynes
Art, Distance, Sides
Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

Russell Lynes
Art, Cutting, Islands

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Russell Lynes
Art, Book, Car

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

Russell Lynes
Art, Bourgeoisie, Social
Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.

Russell Lynes
Art, Wall, Home
Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

Russell Lynes
Art, New Orleans, Expression

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