Re: Re: Knowing art

[Stephanie Smilay <stephani@smart.net>]

On 10 Dec 2000 dm33@usa.net wrote:
> Date: 10 Dec 00 12:56:32 CST
> From: dm33@usa.net
> Reply-To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc
> To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc
> Subject: [QRList] Re: Knowing art
> 
> 
> Stephanie,
>      I apologize for my haste.  Searches on the internet support your claim
> that the quote has been around a while.  But it's attribution is usually to
> "anon." or it is given as a proverb.  Good luck finding the correct source.
> 
I believe that's correct--i.e., its origin is lost in the mists of time.
But I did not make the original query.
Stephanie
> 
> 
>   On 9 Dec 2000 dm33@usa.net wrote:
> 
>   > Date: 9 Dec 00 21:55:17 CST
>   > From: dm33@usa.net
>   > Reply-To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc
>   > To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc
>   > Subject: [QRList] Re: Knowing art
>   > 
>   > 
>   > Hello,
>   > Bartlett's 16th edition gives the quote "He knows all about art, but he
>   > doesn't know what he likes" from James Thurber (1894-1961) as being the
>   > caption for a cartoon in The Now Yorker. From the quote you gave, it
> looks
>   > like someone changed this quote around to suit their purposes. I hope
> that
>   > helps.
>   > 
> 
>   Nope. "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like" was
>   already a cliche at the time Thurber penned the cartoon. That's what
>   made the cartoon funny.