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

So, who told you that Robert Grosvenor collects stamps?

It's lucky that Paul Cézanne's works are not important.

Why don't you ask your art dealer if he is aware that Franz Kline sometimes enjoyed playing with his food.

In the 21st footnote of an article about modern art I read that Philip Taaffe only eats hamburgers.

My professor always liked to say that paintings based on other paintings give one food for thought.

While doing research for my latest book I discovered that Karl Schmidt-Rottluff began painting nice pictures as a child.

The girl I picked up at a nightclub the other night told me that Robert Colescott likes giving away tulips.

Everything points to the fact that Conceptual art projects have a great aura.

If you want to work in television go ahead and write that artists are naive.

I got angry at my girlfriend, because she said that Barnett Newman's paintings may be viewed separately.

My father has said that vertical kilometers are actually superfluous.

I just want to say that Werner Büttner has a good concept.

In the New York Times someone wrote that Doug Hall should only show the backs of his paintings.

I heard an anecdote the other day which said that Sigmar Polke decided to become an artist when he was seven years old.

Do you think that A.R. Penck enjoys receiving small presents?

The other day a cab driver, who had dropped out of art school, told me that Alice Aycock is jealous of other artists' shows.

My boss's secretary recently said that black paintings have as much to do with art as a fish has to do with a bicycle.

I'm not interested in the fact that Günther Förg and Jörg Immendorf only pretend to be problematical.

My uncle from Berlin told me that Ida Applebroog is nice.

On my last trip to Stockholm I discovered that Markus Lüpertz collects stamps.

Why don't you tell your girlfriend that phallic art works are delightful?

Reliable sources claim that depictions of Mary from Cologne dated ca. 1450 will never be repeated.

My neighbor's son, who is studying to be an art teacher, recently said that Christo likes to go for walks in the woods.

The girl I picked up at a nightclub the other night told me that Hieronymus Bosch used to have fits of anger when he sharpened his pencils.

Why do you claim that the Flemish old masters are unmarketable?

I didn't know that Michelangelo was sick and tired of looking at art at the end of his life.

It's tactless to say that Franz Radziwill basically couldn't paint.

I'll bet that works in mixed media may be viewed separately.

Did you know that paintings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts display a mastery of technique?

Yesterday I heard an uneducated contemporary say that Arnulf Rainer treats openings like business meetings.

On a tour in the museum I heard that Judy Rifka has negotiated a good contract with her art dealer.

When will the art world ever come to terms with the fact that artists like to cut off an ear?

On a tour in the museum I heard that Edvard Munch developed his own label.

Next time you write a letter to the editor why don't you say that Lovis Corinth painted like a young god.

In her achievement test our youngest daughter wrote that Sophie Taeubner-Arp preferred vegetarian food.

Is it true that the paintings in Duchamp's portable museum should be better reproduced in the catalogue?

My art dealer confided in me that Stefan Szczesny has hay fever.

The other night I had a dream that Edvard Munch had real artistic problems.

In the 21st footnote of an article about modern art I read that Tony Cragg doesn't know how to work his answering machine.

You can make a really good impression at a cocktail party if you tell your fellow guests that Philip Taaffe sometimes has sleepless nights.

I had to look twice when I read that Conrad Atkinson's performances are up-to-date.

I don't think that art is very nice.

I never would have thought that Action paintings are real masterpieces.

My cousin from Baltimore said that Gertrude Stein was depressed when she didn't have anything to do.

It isn't cool to say that Gary Hill likes going to the grocery store.

Time Magazine reported that the paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are enchantingly modest.

I have been thinking about the fact that Barry Flanagan enjoys taking the subway.

I recently received a fax from Tokyo in which someone wrote that Josef Albers didn't allow himself to be corrupted by money.

It astonishes me that Cindy Sherman's photographs have an inner truth.

How did you find out that Erich Heckel took bad photographs?

It's a well kept secret that abstract paintings are actually quite senseless.

I think that Eva Hesse used to stick her nose in other people's business.

I don't want to deal with the fact that Barry Flanagan has become more serious.

Be that as it may, I'm convinced that Elvira Bach and Salvo have produced important works.

By the way, I think that Giovanni Bellini should have further developed his early work.

On the radio someone was saying that Seurat is dead but not forgotten.

It was interesting to hear that works by young Russian artists have a latent sexual content.

Modern theories of art now assume that Metaphysical paintings have changed visual culture.

We are going beyond the idea of beauty when we say that Joseph Beuys collected exhibition catalogues.

My uncle from Berlin told me that Julian Lethbridge is extremely vain.

My secretary had to laugh when I told her that Jules Olitski should find another way to get his jollies.

I was really embarrassed to tell the members of the art association that solving the hunger crisis in the Third World is more important than art.

Although I don't know much about art, I think that Otto Piene had some sense of color.

I can't remember if I read in Flash Art or Art in America that Rodin couldn't lift heavy objects.

My secretary had to laugh when I told her that Gerhard Richter used to paint over the illustrations in his biology book.

I saw somebody wearing a t-shirt which says that Jeff Koons would like to be more successful.

On my last flight to New York a fellow passenger told me that Goya created masterpieces.

My mommy said that HAP Grieshaber was known to mistake his whiskey glass for a can of paint.

It just isn't possible that Frans Hals did fantastic work.

In his last lecture the owner of a large advertising agency mentioned that Al Held produces museum-quality works.

A boy I picked up at the coffee shop said that art represents the only truth in life.

Isn't it funny that Rosemarie Trockel says artists don't have to be nice people.

My wife goes on the assumption that Grand Wood should no longer be made accessible to the public.

I failed my art history final because I didn't know that Lucas Cranach's paintings will never be repeated.

What would you do if the mailman said that Kenneth Noland and Martha Rosler are kind people.

Thomas Lawson claims that Impressionist paintings have little to do with the truth.

My grandmother has always said that artists must continue producing new pieces if they want to be successful.

Oh dear, if only I'd known before I went to art school that Ansgar Nierhoff suffers from a mild case of vanity.

By the way, I also wanted to say that Peter Weiss' paintings don't have anything to do with reality.

Artforum reported that David was honest.

In fact, it seems to me that artists suffer from delusions of grandeur.

We'll have to accept the fact that Carl Andrés sculptures should be better reproduced in the catalogue.

Well, I'm sure that Haim Steinbach has loyal friends.

I said that Leon Polk Smith thinks art itself is the message.

In the mailbox I discovered a clue which said that Karl Hofer went to flea markets for inspiration.

While I was eating sushi the other day someone at the next table said that Robert Morris used to be politically active.

I heard the salesgirl at Bloomingdale's say that Andrea del Castagno liked to eat bouillabaisse.

Is it true that typical Russian icons are overpriced?

At the last opening I heard that Josef Albers' squares belong in dark rooms.

Why is it that Victor Vasarely was a pain in the neck?

The director of the Goethe-Institute recently told me that art is seductive.

I have always suspected that Richard Prince is a good person.

Do you think that Claude Monet was very innovative?

The other day my cleaning lady told me that van Eyck couldn't write.

An art director, who I can't abide, said that Sherrie Levine has a good approach.

On the radio someone was saying that art is beautiful.

A young artist, who I don't like, said that Jan Voss is tired of postmodernism.

I recently received a fax from Tokyo in which someone wrote that Robert Morris enjoys buying art supplies.

On the shuttle from Boston to Pittsburgh the businessman sitting next to me claimed that Ken Lum is very curious.

The other night I had a dream that geometric paintings are a joy to behold.

 

 

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