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The superstitious call it religious icons – we call it bullshit. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s3e12, Signs From Heaven, Showtime 2003
There’s nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I’m that icon. Paris Hilton
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing. Audrey Hepburn
I think that’s just another word for a washed-up has-been. Bob Dylan, Mail on Sunday 18th January 1998
I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colours on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions. Lady Gaga
I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson’s an icon. Justin Timberlake
This exquisite work of art always looks a bit lonely to me here in the National Gallery. It’s the only British painting in the Renaissance […]. And it’s a reminder of all that never took place in British art. Andrew Graham-Dixon, A History of British Art I: Dreams & Hammers, BBC 1996
There would be no British Raphael, no British Michelangelo … And so turned away from the great traditions of religious art. We followed our own idiosyncratic course and created another kind of beauty. ibid.
A radical act of censorship lies at the centre of the history of art in Britain … the violent destruction of the traditions of painting and sculpture which flourished for centuries. ibid.
The British Middle Ages have become the missing ages. ibid.
Between 95-99% of religious art was destroyed. ibid.
This vandalism was evangelism. ibid.