"Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century."
"Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing."
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Russell Lynes
Photographer, Writer
Russell Lynes was an influential American writer and critic known for his insights on art and culture, particularly in 'The Art of the Commonplace.'
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"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."
"The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there."
"Camouflage is a game we all like to play"
"No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published."
"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."