Someone sent a link to web pages relating to another thread and there I found these quotes from an interview with Nelson Shanks. I don't know if it is an "Artsy Quote" but it is provocative.
http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2...n_shanks1.html
Here is part of the interview:
"We briefly discussed the realist protest that was held in New York outside The Whitney Museum of American Art last September. Nelson said that he had heard about it, but was unable to attend. Nonetheless, his outspoken sentiment about the subject of the Biennial is shared by many realists, "I think those people ought to be brought to their knees. They are taste makers who know very little about art. They just know what sort of dazzles their minimal mentalities. Most of it is pseudo-psychiatric. It's all a bunch of nonsense for the great part. But I have to tell you that I really do feel that part of the problem at the moment that's causing much exclusion of realism, is the lack of quality in realism. Let's face it, it's a fact. If there were people around who painted like Boldini and Sargent and Vermeer ... it would be seen and it would be spoken about and it would be exhibited. But the fact of the matter is that "much of the realism that is exhibited is of lesser quality. But when it's realism it has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry."
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