Room Wall Quotes

• If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

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  Juliet Stevenson

  Wall   Artist   Sitting  

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• Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

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  Susan Sontag

  Wall   Book   Emotional  

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.94, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

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  Lemn Sissay

  Wall   Thinking   Rooms  

  Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

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  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wall   Mean   Redneck  

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• You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

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  Andy Warhol

  Wall   Color   People  

  "Andy Warhol: In His Own Words". Book by Mike Wrenn, 1991.

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• I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

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  Jill Scott

  Wall   California   Philadelphia  

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• It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

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  Ben Shahn

  Art   Wall   Pride  

  BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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• Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

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  Andrea Gibson

  Wall   Fists   Rooms  

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