Francis Picabia:
Art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles.
James Ensor’s self-portrait as a beetle, drawn 24 years before The Metamorphosis:
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Frida Kahlo imagined a love potion for Diego Rivera; concocted from wormseed twigs and ground-up toads, it would take effect after a “serenade during a night of an eternal moon.”
Philip Guston:
Louise Bourgeois:
Donald Judd:
Mondrian tried to keep the larger view in mind, while I, we, are not sure that there is a larger view.
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