Edmund Snow Carpenter Quotes

• If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.

  Edmund Snow Carpenter

  Artist, Addresses, Cliche

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• The White House is now essentially a TV performance.

  Edmund Snow Carpenter

  White, House, Tvs

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• No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."

  Edmund Snow Carpenter

  Art, Attitude, Men

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• History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

  Edmund Snow Carpenter

  Opposites, History, Reversal

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