"Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off."

-- Jerry Saltz

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“People who have little to do are excessive talkers.”
“When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.”
“The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.”
“You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin”
“Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.”
“If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.”
“I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu”
“Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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