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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

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After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

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By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

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It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

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Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.

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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

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I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: November 30th, 1907

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