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Top 10 Patrick Bringley Quotes (2026 Update)

Patrick Bringley Quote: “Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious.”

1. “Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “Too many think the objective is to learn about art rather than from it.”

2. “Too many think the objective is to learn about art rather than from it.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “I’m sometimes not sure which is the more remarkable: life lives up to great paintings, or that great paintings live up to life.”

3. “I’m sometimes not sure which is the more remarkable: life lives up to great paintings, or that great paintings live up to life.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “Michelangelo had only this to say: “I have finished the chapel I have been painting: the Pope is very well satisfied,” he wrote his father. Then he added: “Other things have not turned out for me as I’d hoped. For this I blame the times, which are very unfavorable to our art.” Today, we call those “unfavorable” times the High Renaissance.”

4. “Michelangelo had only this to say: “I have finished the chapel I have been painting: the Pope is very well satisfied,” he wrote his father. Then he added: “Other things have not turned out for me as I’d hoped. For this I blame the times, which are very unfavorable to our art.” Today, we call those “unfavorable” times the High Renaissance.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “I think that sometimes we need permission to stop and adore, and a work of art grants us that.”

5. “I think that sometimes we need permission to stop and adore, and a work of art grants us that.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “A graceful, broken body, it reminds us again of the obvious: that we’re mortal, that we suffer, that bravery in suffering is beautiful, that loss inspires love and lamentation. This part of the painting performs the work of sacred art, putting us in direct touch with something we know intimately yet remains beyond our comprehension.”

6. “A graceful, broken body, it reminds us again of the obvious: that we’re mortal, that we suffer, that bravery in suffering is beautiful, that loss inspires love and lamentation. This part of the painting performs the work of sacred art, putting us in direct touch with something we know intimately yet remains beyond our comprehension.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “A mother at the American Wing fountain hands her child two coins: “One wish for yourself,” she says, “and another, just as big, for someone else.” I have never heard this before and immediately know I will say it to my children one day.”

7. “A mother at the American Wing fountain hands her child two coins: “One wish for yourself,” she says, “and another, just as big, for someone else.” I have never heard this before and immediately know I will say it to my children one day.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “When we adore, we apprehend beauty. When we lament, we see the wisdom of the ancient adage “Life is suffering.” A great painting can look like a slab of sheer bedrock, a piece of reality too stark and direct and poignant for words.”

8. “When we adore, we apprehend beauty. When we lament, we see the wisdom of the ancient adage “Life is suffering.” A great painting can look like a slab of sheer bedrock, a piece of reality too stark and direct and poignant for words.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen.”

9. “It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “A work of art tends to speak of things that are at once too large and too intimate to be summed up, and they speak of them by not speaking at all.”

10. “A work of art tends to speak of things that are at once too large and too intimate to be summed up, and they speak of them by not speaking at all.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “Art often derives from those moments when we wish the world to stand still.”

11. “Art often derives from those moments when we wish the world to stand still.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious. This is real. That’s all it says. Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know.”

12. “Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious. This is real. That’s all it says. Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “The first step in any encounter with art is to do nothing, to just watch, giving your eye a chance to absorb all that’s there. We shouldn’t think “This is good,” or “This is bad,” or “This is a Baroque picture which means X, Y, Z.” Ideally, for the first minute we shouldn’t think at all. Art needs time to perform its work on us.”

13. “The first step in any encounter with art is to do nothing, to just watch, giving your eye a chance to absorb all that’s there. We shouldn’t think “This is good,” or “This is bad,” or “This is a Baroque picture which means X, Y, Z.” Ideally, for the first minute we shouldn’t think at all. Art needs time to perform its work on us.”

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Patrick Bringley Quote: “So under the cover of no one hearing your thoughts, think brave thoughts, searching thoughts, painful thoughts, and maybe foolish thoughts, not to arrive at right answers but to better understand the human mind and heart as you put both to use.”

14. “So under the cover of no one hearing your thoughts, think brave thoughts, searching thoughts, painful thoughts, and maybe foolish thoughts, not to arrive at right answers but to better understand the human mind and heart as you put both to use.”

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