Michael Kimmel Quotes

You need to put this in the context of all the other things we think of as disfiguring that people do because they think they'll be more attractive. - Michael Kimmel

Wright was notoriously ingenious about changing his designs in the process, and these drawings cannot be said to represent anything but one stage in the concept of a design by Wright. So while it's an interesting exercise, it also comes perilously close to kitsch, and even to misrepresenting Wright's genius. - Michael Kimmelman

To be grown up is to be settled, comfortable, stable, responsible, and secure. Those are bad conditions for advertising, which depends on our sense of insecurity, anxiety, and incompleteness. - Michael Kimmel

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

It seems to me extremely dubious to be constructing buildings based on drawings by Wright as if these are actually Wright's works. - Michael Kimmelman

It is very simple. It's because guys rule. - Michael Kimmel

Heightened perception is the goal: becoming more aware of how you see, not just what you see. - Michael Kimmelman

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

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

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