the wet blanket of professionalism

New York Studio School on 8th Street in Manhattan.

Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is considered art history’s foundational text.

If you live long enough and you persist, you are going to get recognition; you must stay in the game.

contented concentration

You can be the greatest artist in the world, but if the eyes that matter aren’t on your work, and if the people who count don’t speak up for you, you hardly exist beyond your own local circle.

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

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

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