"My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting."

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Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

Deborah Kass

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Painting Quotes

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”

Source : William Ellery Channing (1840). “Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community”, p.25
“I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible. Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.”
“From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.”
“You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.”
“Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press
“I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.”
“Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.”
“The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.”

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