Carter Ratcliff Quotes

• What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Art, Views, Answers

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• Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Effort, Talent

  Carter Ratcliff (1982). “John Singer Sargent”, Abbeville Pr

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• I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Believe, Artist, Play

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• Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Wall, Book, Mirrors

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