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Peter Schjeldahl Quotes: For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
         

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.


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Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.



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A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.



Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.



Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.



To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.



You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.



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.

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.



I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.



I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.



I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.





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No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.



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Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.

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This page presents the quote "For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.". Author of this quote is Peter Schjeldahl. This quote is about reality, roles, relation, role playing, social hierarchy,.