Russell Lynes (Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr.; December 2, 1910 – September 14, 1991) was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine.
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.
Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.
The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.
Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.
I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.
I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?
If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.
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.
Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.
Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.
And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.