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..it was the Cubist painters who created the new magic of space and color that everywhere today confronts our eyes in new architecture and design. Since then the various branches of modern art through exhaustive experiment and research have created a vast laboratory whose discoveries unveiled for all the secrets of form, line and color..

— Arshile Gorky

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Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

Stuart Davis.. ..is one of but few, who realized his canvas as a.. ..two-dimensional surface plane.

I was with Cézanne for a long time, and now naturally I am with Picasso

..poor art for poor people [his critic on social realism art in America]

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

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