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I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
Vincent Price--known for his horror movie career--recounts his life-long love of art from his first acquisition to his eventual turn as art dealer to the rich and famous.
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311 pages
Published
1959
by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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An enthusiastic, conversational book detailing the author's love of art. It suffers a bit from a lack of reproductions -- as much as he insists that reproductions can't convey the brilliance of a piece of art, it would have been nice to see more of his favorites, particularly when it comes to artists who have not achieved the level of fame he expected. But the book did get me itching to go to more museums and galleries, and to buy more art, which seems to be exactly what he intended!
A must read for any fan of Vincent Price. A wonderful look into what truly made Vincent happy in life.
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Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American film actor, remembered for his distinctive voice, his tall 6-foot 4-inch stature and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films done in the latter part of his career.
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“There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.”
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“I have come more and more to the belief that we owe our arts a thousand times what we are paying them. We support our cigarette factories, soap manufacturers, beauticians, all the luxury and pleasure businesses of our over-indulged civilization, but we pay our painters an average wage... and yet when the future digs us from the past they won't care how we smell, what we smoke, or if we bathed. All they’ll know of us will be our architecture, our paintings, sculpture, poems, laws, philosophy, drama, our pottery and fabrics, the things which our hands made and our minds thought up - oh, the machines they’ll dig up too, but perhaps they’ll point to them as our destruction, the wheels that drove us down to death.”
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