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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
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It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous.
It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask.
Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.