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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.

— Arshile Gorky

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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.

The Persian art is great, I feel compelled to tell you this my Mouguch [pet name for his wife], because it pleases me so much. I adore those sick and lovely Persian – civilization which reveals there ancient custom's to me, which is deeply impregnated with my own.

Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof (2009)

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