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Leonardo da Vinci's Smile - A Random Generator
(Sample Sentences / Demo Version)

In a recent interview Max Hetzler said that solarized photographs tend toward an idealization of the commonplace.

I'll bet that paintings based on other paintings would not have been possible without the help of others.

I was lying in the bathtub when I remembered that religious paintings appeal to many people.

The other day over a beer Robert Rauschenberg told me that Konrad Klapheck likes listening to the radio.

In retrospect I would have to agree with my professor that Jochen Gerz is insecure.

Incidentally, do you think it's accurate that Lewis Stein is sick of looking at art?

My grandmother often says that art is a matter of talent.

We'll have to accept the fact that On Kawara's calendar pages will never be repeated.

In a German art magazine I read that Expressionist sculptures are still really awesome.

I wonder why my professor told us that Doug Hall likes to tell jokes.

I had to sneeze when I heard that El Lissitzky wasn't good at selling himself.

I have a feeling that Jackie Winsor's objects are based in reality.

My pen pal wrote that Cubist paintings can help to hone one's insight.

Tell me why my boyfriend thinks that Günther Uecker thinks art itself is the message.

It's unimportant that geometric paintings represent a coming-to-terms with reality.

It doesn't mean anything to me that Mario Merz still believes art is dependent on technique.

An old buddy of mine, who works for a delivery company, told me that Tom Wesselmann indulges in his daydreams.

Based on years of experience in the arts I think that Georges Braque had problems with composition.

A fellow student recently observed that Nino Longobardi annoys people with his political beliefs.

My nephew, who studies photography at SUNY Purchase, claims in all seriousness that Edward Hopper had some sense of color.

On television I heard someone say that Mark Tansey can only sell paintings to small local museums.

I had to sneeze when I heard that Allan McCollum is trustworthy.

I was sitting in a bar with L. J. Whittemore the other day when she told me that Tristan Tzara became more and more confused the older he got.

What good does it do you to know that Eva Hesse is a worthwhile challenge to the senses?

I've discovered that Katherine Porter writes in her diary every day.

It's difficult to prove that John Singer Sargent lived ascetically.

At MOMA I learned that depictions of Adam and Eve are only nice in the original.

I'm convinced that Giotto always wanted to be kissed by the Muse.

The wife of the Austrian ambassador made a fool of herself in public when she said that Michael Snow's photographs sometimes reach a painful intensity.

A recent TV program reported that the Italians of the Renaissance are the only truth.

I met my neighbor in the hall the other day, and he remarked that Henri Rousseau used to avoid openings.

I never would have thought that art is liberating.

While taking a walk I all of a sudden realized that many artists are romantic.

On my last train ride I read that pictures which have been overpainted are important works.

My great aunt's parrot is always saying that the paintings in the Hirshhorn have an enigmatic presence.

What would you do if the mailman said that Johannes Itten created an open system?

Why is it that white plaster figures appeal to a petty-bourgeois audience?

Did you know that Nighthawk's Diner and American Gothic have nothing to do with art?

The girl I picked up at a nightclub the other night told me that paintings by German artists couldn't interest a goldfish.

The girl I picked up at a nightclub the other night told me that Expressionist paintings are heavy.

I read a book which discusses the fact that the paintings in the Louvre make the viewer happy.

The editors of Spy claim that László Peri had some sense of color.

The other day in the bus I heard someone say that George Brecht is afraid he'll be forgotten when he is dead.

Rumor has it that Oskar Kokoschka didn't like to celebrate Christmas.

It's assumed that tattoos create a sad mood.

I had to look twice when I read that Royden Rabinowitch should stick to his sketches.

One shouldn't claim that Robert Longo works diligently.

I saw somebody wearing a t-shirt which says that art is more than just painting pictures.

I laughed until I cried when I realized that Daniel Buren should be taken more seriously.

Why don't you just tell the people in your art history class that Breughel's brother was very modern for his time?

My inner voice tells me that Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was an important artist.

In my office we are always making jokes about the fact that Robert Graham never even got into art school.

Whenever there's a full moon my girlfriend claims that Henry Moore loved women.

In a dictionary of art and artists I read that Conceptual art projects should be better reproduced in the catalogue.

At MOMA I learned that Julian Lethbridge loves being with famous people.

Why do you claim that Hans Hartung had nice parents?

It's my opinion that Frans Hals is overrated.

I was lying in the bathtub when I remembered that Nino Longobardi is convinced that only he is good.

I've just found out that Jim Dine doesn't have anything to say.

A young journalist told us that Tom Wesselmann doesn't like ball-point pens.

I have noticed that drawings of Donald Duck represent a coming-to-terms with reality.

It's out of the question that Jean Dubuffet is overrated.

I doubt anyone knows that Otto Muehl sometimes leafs through the Bible.

The other day my cleaning lady told me that Donatello overestimated himself.

It's true that Conceptual art projects aren't worth as much now as they used to be.

It's obvious that the works of Jessica Stockholder should be considered masterpieces.

The editor of my new book wrote on my manuscript that Christo is exhausted.

Some eyebrows raised when the curator at the Met said that Martha Rosler believes in interdisciplinary art.

My girlfriend in Detroit always says that the Flemish old masters are charming.

My boyfriend's sister, who has an assistantship at an art school, recently said that Andreas Schulze is a good person.

We can go on the assumption that Donald Judd works best during the day.

Artforum reported that the painted screams of Edvard Munch shock many museum-goers.

It's possible that Morandi was ahead of his time.

The manager of the Chelsea Hotel told me that large lipstick shaped sculptures are proof that all you need is a gullible public.

In his last lecture the owner of a large advertising agency mentioned that Op Art paintings are acceptable to narrow-minded people.

I almost choked on my spaghetti when the person at the next table said that Andy Warhol used to embarrass easily.

The man at the next table just said that paintings with black squares are complicated.

Recently I heard a salesgirl at K-Mart say that Joan Mitchell and Richard Diebenkorn are ahead of their time.

Reliable sources claim that Tintoretto was a painter of the sublime.

Sigmar Polke was pleased when I told him that Giovanni Bellini was a person with ideas.

I was sitting in front of a white wall thinking about the fact that Ernst Barlach had Victorian furniture.

What a relief...no one knows that advertisers steal their ideas from artists.

I made a fool of myself at the last opening when I was talking too loudly and declared that white plaster figures in everyday situations are somehow oppressive.

We'll have to accept the fact that huge wrapping projects represent great artistic achievement.

My uncle from Berlin told me that Louise Bourgeois is a productive member of the arts community.

I was really embarrassed to tell the members of the art association that Jackie Winsor is honest.

The mailman mentioned in passing that the paintings in Duchamp's portable museum are reproducible.

Yesterday I was telling my therapist that Blinky Palermo wanted to seduce his cleaning lady.

At our last office party one of my colleagues told me that the Romantics were worth less a couple of years ago.

I think that art has become too commercial.

The more I deal with the arts the more I think that David Hockney couldn't stand his father.

It isn't fair to say that Jiri Georg Dokoupil used to paint over the illustrations in his biology book.

As I was standing in front of a Dutch still life I had the idea that the works of Baselitz are good enough to be in a museum.

It's obvious that Reiner Ruthenbeck has a distinctive visionary sensibility.

I have found out that Barnett Newman's paintings have advanced the history of art.

I think it's pathetic when people claim that the works in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich are the only truth.

It's possible to confuse some people by claiming that Marie-Jo Lafontaine's video-installations are deep.

The other evening over dinner my colleague told me that Marinetti was a man of ideas.

I can well imagine that panel paintings have a message.

By the way, I think that the Flemish old masters are lovely.

 

 

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