Art remarked that, once Steven's name was out, his friends rushed to support him.
"Teachers don't have the time or background (for art)," remarked D.J. Gray, art educator for the Laguna Beach Unified School District.
"Self-indulgence is the key to all art," Ishmael Houston-Jones remarked at New York Live Arts on Wednesday.
"He was such a nice guy that I felt really sorry when he got mixed up with rock music," one of Barrett's contemporaries from art school remarked.
But perhaps no poet ever valued him more highly than Robert Frost: "We were greater friends than almost any two ever were practising the same art," he remarked.
When Picasso went to a show of children's art, he remarked: "When I was their age I could draw like Raphael; but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them".
Around 1195, in a letter of recommendation to the Bishop of Hereford, William de Vere, Gerald of Wales commends Grosseteste for his wide reading and skill in business and legal affairs, medicine, and the liberal arts, and remarks on his exceptional standards of conduct.
"Look How Many Works By Frida Kahlo We Were Able To Get" could be the title of most Kahlo-inspired exhibitions, one art dealer remarked to Artnet.
Looking back at the influence of his schooling upon his art, he remarked how, despite the Eurocentric origins of Rudolf Steiner's approach to education, "there are comparable elements and themes inherent in [Steiner's] philosophical narrative that parallel an Indigenous outlook, which is holistic in the way it approaches deeper and more intuitive readings of the environment and landscape".
Oh, it quite takes one back to the good old days when Kim Howells, once upon a time Labour arts minister, remarked of the 2002 Turner prize shortlist that it was "cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit".
