Romare Bearden “Dream of Exile”
If you’re any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.
-Romare Bearden
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William S. Burroughs with his shotgun art
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
-William S. Burroughs
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Philip Guston
We are image-makers and image-ridden… We work until we vanish.
-Philip Guston
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George Bellows “Cliff Dwellers”
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
-George Bellows
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Saul Steinberg
The artist is an educator of artists of the future…
-Saul Steinberg