John Bayley Quotes

• The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

  John Bayley

  Marriage, Alternatives, Partners

  John Bayley (1999). “Iris and the friends: a year of memories”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

  John Bayley

  Kitsch, Existence, Courses

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• One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

  John Bayley

  Art, Kitsch, Function

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• Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

  John Bayley

  War, Reading, Vermeer

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