A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Julian Barnes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julian Barnes. Show all posts
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Quote of the Day (Julian Barnes, on the Art Market’s ‘Grifters, Fakers and Thieves’)

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“The art market is international and barely regulated; its products are easily transportable, squirrelled away in freeports or swiftly turne...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Quote of the Day (Julian Barnes, on How Art is ‘Heard Above the Noise of Time’)

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“Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art n...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Quote of the Day (Julian Barnes, on Writers and the ‘Patterns Their Words Make’)

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“Writers believe in the patterns their words make, which they hope and trust add up to ideas, to stories, to truths.”—British novelist ...
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