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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
Gore Vidal, American writer (1925–2012)
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The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
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Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know — and how much I don't.

Good art writing should therefore do at least two things. It should teach us how to look: at art, architecture, sculpture, photography and all the other visual components of our daily landscape. And it should give us the information we need to understand what we're looking at.
William Zinsser, American writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, and professor
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