What did James Thurber mean by: He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes. - James Thurber Writer · USA Copy
+ Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Thurber, Columbus, Towns, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
+ God bless… God damn. Feraz Zeid, October 5, 2023December 26, 2023, James Thurber, Age, Death, God Bless, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
+ For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Thurber, Flower, One Thing, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
+ There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Thurber, Light, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
+ Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, James Thurber, Emotional, Humor, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
+ One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Thurber, Beer, Drinking, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
+ The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell Feraz Zeid, September 3, 2023December 24, 2023, James Thurber, Hell, Old Man, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
+ Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Thurber, Art, 0 - James Thurber Writer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
