Best Quotes
“All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.”
“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
-- John Ruskin
“But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.”
-- Vanessa Kerry
“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.”
-- Jerry Saltz