"Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one."

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Source : University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum, Arshile Gorky (1975). “Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings”

Arshile Gorky

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“When you trust people to help you, they often do.”
“Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.”
“If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.”
“Necessity is the last and strongest weapon”
“Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.”
“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.”
“I don't know any woman who is happy with her looks. I certainly wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who was.”

Source : "Beyond the cringe" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2002.

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