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Style Is A Fraud. I Always Felt The Greeks Were Hiding Behind Their Columns.

An Artist Is Forced By Others To Paint Out Of His Own Free Will.

I Feel Sometimes An American Artist Must Feel, Like A Baseball Player Or Something - A Member Of A Team Writing American History.

When, About Fifteen Years Ago, I Walked Into Arshile's Studio For The First Time, The Atmosphere Was So Beautiful That I Got A Little Dizzy And When I Came To, I Was Bright Enough To Take The Hint Immediately. If The Bookkeepers Think It Necessary To Make Sure Of Where Things And People Came From, Well Then, I Came From 36 Union Square. I Am Glad That It Is About Impossible To Get Away From His Powerful Influence.

And Then There Is That One-man Movement, Marcel Duchamp For Me A Truly Modern Movement Because It Implies That Each Artist Can Do What He Thinks He Ought To A Movement For Each Person And Open For Everybody.