{"id":28804,"date":"2010-10-19T08:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=28804"},"modified":"2015-06-25T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:27:46","slug":"i-dont-know-anything-about-art-but-i-know-what-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=28804","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I-don&#8217;t-know-anything-about-art-but-I-know-what-I-like.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orson Welles to Peter Bogdanovich:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The truth is, Peter, I really am one of those I-don&#8217;t-know-anything-about-art-but-I-know-what-I-like people.  If there&#8217;s no pleasure for me in it, I feel no<\/i> obligation <i>to a work of art.  I cherish certain paintings, books, and feels <\/i>for the pleasure of their company.<i> When I get no pleasure from an author, I feel no duty to consult him.  My interests and enthusiasms are pretty wide; and I do keep trying to stretch them wider.  But no <i>strain<\/i>.  No.  I am, indeed, quite shameless, as you say, about not straining to encompass what doesn&#8217;t truly speak to me.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=030680834X&#038;asins=030680834X&#038;linkId=RHV27JKIAUUXSQ4Q&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orson Welles to Peter Bogdanovich: The truth is, Peter, I really am one of those I-don&#8217;t-know-anything-about-art-but-I-know-what-I-like people. If there&#8217;s no pleasure for me in it, I feel no obligation to a work of art. I cherish certain paintings, books, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=28804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104314,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804\/revisions\/104314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}