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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.

A Lady Is Nothing Very Specific. One Man's Lady Is Another Man's Woman; Sometimes, One Man's Lady Is Another Man's Wife. Definitions Overlap But They Almost Never Coincide.

Don't Let You Mind Wander - It's Far Too Small To Be Let Out On Its Own.

The World Of The Arts Is By No Means Always Comfortable, But Neither Is It Likely Ever To Be Boring. It Is Full Of Surprises, Humor, Traps For The Unwary, And Challenges To Smugness. It Is A World Of Moods As Well As Of Revelation, Of Beliefs And Fears, Of Unpleasant Truth As Well As Of Delicious Fantasy. Perhaps It Is Arrogant To Say That Anyone Who Does Not Venture Into This World Is Only Half-interested In Life. I Say It, Nonetheless.

Anybody Who Told You To Be Yourself Simply Couldn't Have Given You Worse Advice.