Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

painters use tricks like putting a spot of white in the pupil of the eye to convey liveliness and making a muddy mixture of colors for an undecipherable facial shadow.

Pentimento refers to traces of original drawing that the artist has erased.

New York Studio School on 8th Street in Manhattan.

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You have to make a lot of work, she said, because 85 percent of what artists make is junk.

In The Art World, illustration is inferior to art on account of serving an end that is not art. Illustration serves subject matter,

GALLERY REPRESENTATION, I quickly learned, is the main criterion for who counts as An Artist.

New Museum—

There’s a wonderful freedom in not having to prove anything.

Warhol’s lesson of divorcing social meaning from visual meaning,