"I felt contemporary art had failed its audience on a basic level, " he concludes.

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Paul Emsley was asked how he felt about some art critics' less than flattering comments about his work.

BBC: Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews

In my conversations with Kasparov, chess felt like the embodiment of art, competition, resonant emotion, psychology--what a game!

FORBES: Magazine Article

Drawn on a piece of paper, the spokesman said it was "full of the pop art motifs we have now come to recognise, including Warhol's signature bright red lips, made using lipstick, and a typically pop art blocked background, coloured with green and orange felt-tip pen".

BBC: Warhol sketch

This painful but moving scene provides a clue as to why Mr Browner felt compelled to write this book and why the art of hospitality has come to matter so much to him.

ECONOMIST: Hospitality

As crisp as the music sounded, the visuals occasionally felt like visions of the future from the late seventies, or early digital art you might find in an e-card from your mom.

NEWYORKER: Sound Machine

Though he was born in Hong Kong, Brown waited to start a gallery in his hometown until he felt the market was ripe and that buyers had gained a real appreciation for western art.

BBC: High-end art in Hong Kong

As pop philosopher Alain De Botton wrote in "The Art of Travel, " "There is an urge to say: I was here, I felt this, and it matters!"

CNN: Can ideas get you high?

Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life.

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