Tracing Quotations
Gertrude Stein? Alice B. Toklas? Glenway Wescott? William Styron? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Whenever I experience difficulty in a creative endeavor like writing or drawing I am reminded of the following expression: I have the syrup, but it won’t pour. The prize-winning author William Styron said something similar to this. Would you please help …
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Salvador Dali? Pablo Picasso? Gertrude Stein? Alice B. Toklas? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A self-assured painter once suggested that one should never deliberately create a portrait to look precisely like its subject. Instead, the brilliance of the artwork would cause the subject to grow to look like the portrait over time. Would you please …
Pablo Picasso? Gertrude Stein? Alice B. Toklas? Salvador Dali? Glenn Ligon? Arianna Huffington? David Mamet? Clifford Gessler? Michael Schulman? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Depictions of people in paintings, photographs, books, and movies can dramatically change cultural perceptions. Powerful images cause accuracy to be superseded, and stylized portrayals to become reified. Near the beginning of …