Irving Sandler quotes
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“I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.”
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“In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism.”
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“It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original--for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did...”
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“There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.”
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”
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“You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”
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“Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.”
Source : 'Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's' (1663)
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“The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.”
Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1842). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”
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