Brian Sewell quotes

“I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.”
-- Brian Sewell

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“Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.”
-- Brian Sewell

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“Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.”
-- Brian Sewell

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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.”

“Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.”

“Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.”

“If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.”

“Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?”

Source : Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”

“We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish.”