Adam Gopnik Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Writing, Talking

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

• Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

  Adam Gopnik

  Education, Art, Degrees

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

• Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

  Adam Gopnik

  Faith, Art, Practice

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

• Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Skeletons, Skills

• Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

  Adam Gopnik

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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