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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.

— 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]

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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