"drawing that began in the caves"
Kitaj, de Kooning, Roethke, Bloom, Neel
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RB Kitaj:
The important thing for a young artist is to get an equation right between freedom to be oneself and the tradition of painting and drawing that began in the caves, rather than to sing last week’s stale tune.
A critic on a Willem de Kooning retrospective :
Something like the experience of having sex with someone gorgeous in a bath filled with maple syrup and milk while eating a fried egg and bacon sandwich.
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Theodore Roethke:
Hyman Bloom:
I had a conviction of immortality, of being part of something permanent and ever changing, of metamorphosis as the nature of being.
Alice Neel:
Johnny Carson [laughing]: You like to work with damaged goods, is that it?
Neel: Well, so many of us are damaged, aren’t we?
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