Deborah Kass quotes
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“To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.”
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“Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.”
-- Deborah KassSource : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
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“A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.”
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“I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.”
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“My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.”
-- Deborah KassSource : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
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“I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.”
-- Deborah KassSource : "Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law" by Alpheus Thomas Mason, (p. 95), 1956.
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“Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.”
-- Deborah KassSource : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
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“I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.”
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“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon
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“Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.”
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