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bad mistake to be part of the rivalry now going on between students of geography. I do not stand apart I the art world but I make a show of independence

Everything hurts, even those who live on clouds and have halos and wings suffer in some way.

Irving Sandler

Recent American art is more vital than that made elsewhere because, in part, an attitude of dissatisfaction pervades the best and exposes the

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remainder. There is so much insistence on growth that not to grown (change) can be a heroic act, an anguished �not yet�.

Most non-American art seems self-satisfied, even smug  the well-turned out painting or tailored collage, the minor calligraphic gesture, the novelty surface or material, the grey-walled tristesse, the spasmic �action painting� and other parodies on New York art  these works are predictable; they lack the anxiety and the fire that dares paint The Picture and fail. One says, �That�s nice�, and walks away, kicking aside the litter of words and prizes that blocks the exits.

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