"The Art of Looking Sideways"

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"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted." - Arthur Miller
"At its most delicious, bad taste is impudent.. it provokes anxiety because it breaks taboos." - The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste
"Art must take reality by surprise." - Francoise Sagan
"Looking is giving a direction to one's sight." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Illusion... is a small bit of nature that amuses itself by giving us pleasure through evaporation." - Joseph Joubert
"Affluence offers the kind of freedom I am deeply suspicious of, It offers freedom from restraint." - Charles Eames
"No other art is more justified than typography in looking ahead to future centuries; for the creatioins of typography benefit coming generations as much as present ones." - Giambattista Bodoni
"I adore language, and especially English with its incomparable richness. I think of that richness less as a doomed attempt to impose order on chaos than as an attempt to magnify reality." - John Fowler
"The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor" - Thomas Carlyle
"Copy anyone but never copy yourself." - Pablo Picasso
"What makes Mies such a great influence is that he is so easy to copy." - Philip Johnson
"Good design is the solution best adapted to necessity, but very superior to it." - Andre Breton
"Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees." - Paul Valery

Rossetti remarked that 18th century art reminded him of a wet Sunday afternoon.
Anthony Burgess: ' a small fiddling capacity for producing the conventional and the well shaped'
Baudelaire: 'a phosphorescence of putrescence'

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