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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..

— Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (1969)

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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

For really, when you think of all the life and death problems in the art of the Renaissance, who cares if a Chevalier is laughing or that a young girl has a red blouse on.

The Renaissance and Order (1950)

Jackson has broken the ice for us.

It is disastrous to name ourselves.

And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp — for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to — a movement for each person and open for everybody.

A Brief History of American Culture (1996)

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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