“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”
Source: The Collector
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British writer 1926–2005Related quotes
“You know, clowns can get away with murder.”
Quoted in Wolcott, Martin Gilman The Evil 100 https://books.google.com/books?id=AqAtjVMGnLIC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=john+gacy+funeral+parlor+license&source=bl&ots=koZRMY2U1t&sig=ACfU3U0Xvi5XTOq4hbVXOKgS5ZCkpW977A&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHzZC_ntfmAhWGKs0KHbNBCQAQ6AEwDXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=john%20gacy%20funeral%20parlor%20license&f=false Citadel Press 2004 p. 150.
“Words one can hear, the face is plain to see:
The inmost heart one seldom can discern.”
Ben s'ode il ragionar, si vede il volto,
Ma dentro il petto mal giudicar possi.
Canto V, stanza 8 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“You know I can get away with murder. The audience loves me.”
“Art is whatever you can get away with.”
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
Source: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
