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Rimbaud has epitomized for me the true function of the artist when he wrote: 'The poet should define the quantity of the unknown which awakes in his time, in the universal soul. He should give more than the formula of his thought, than the annotation of his march toward progress. The enormous becoming the normal, when absorbed by everyone, he would really be a multiplication of progress.'

— 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

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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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