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Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Seriously. We were never like that were we?
— Stephanie Perkins
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.
— Peter Schjeldahl
I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.
— Eric Stoltz
The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!
— Peter Schjeldahl
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
— Peter Schjeldahl
We have to be poor in spirit before we can be filled with the Holy Spirit.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.
— Peter Schjeldahl
The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.
— Peter Schjeldahl
I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.
— Peter Schjeldahl
It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Opinions, from experts, cost money.
— Rex Stout
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.
— Peter Schjeldahl
You're the best time I've ever had.
— Joan Wilder
I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.
— Peter Schjeldahl
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
— Charles Stanley
Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.
— Peter Schjeldahl
At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.
— Mose Allison
With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.
— Peter Schjeldahl
The dearest things I know are what you are.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
— Peter Schjeldahl
You must become what you want to attract.
— Marshall Sylver
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.
— Peter Schjeldahl
A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.
— Peter Schjeldahl
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
— Peter Schjeldahl
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.
— Peter Schjeldahl
What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.
— Peter Schjeldahl
There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.
— Peter Schjeldahl
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing ... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
— Peter Schjeldahl
Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.
— Peter Schjeldahl