Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Great Regulars: The hushed reverence of the gallery

can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to rearrange your sense of reality . . .

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: The power of art --Simon Schama

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