Abstract Painting, Thomas Hess, New York, Viking 1951, p. 132
1950s
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 126
“In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.”
In a letter to Polish poet Jan Brzekowski, ca. 1930, co-publisher of the Franco-Polish magazine 'L'art contemporain'; from Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs, Hans Arp, Gallimard, Paris 1966, p. 63
Arp's critical quote refers to the creation of art by the French Surrealists in which Jean Arp participated for a few years and then departed.
1930s
Said about U.S. President George W. Bush and quoted in the Swedish newspaper Expressen (November 2, 2004).
"The Transformation of Martin Lake", epigram, p. 130
City of Saints and Madmen (2001–2004)
“If you don't have a friend who's a painter, you're in trouble.”
Cited as having said that to John Cage in 1952 in Begin Again: A Bibliography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman, p. 96 https://books.google.com/books?id=i11wgznLRZIC&pg=PA79&hl=pl&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=true.
Lost, A valuable object, in Myfanwy Piper's anthology-"The Painters Object" 1937
“Do not underestimate us Americans.”
Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)
Context: I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Kessinger Publishing (2005).
Misattributed
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
Quote in a writing of Jorn on modern art in Paris, 1947; as cited on the website of the Jorn Museum. 'Articles' by Jorn http://www.museumjorn.dk/en/article_presentation.asp?AjrDcmntId=255,
1940 - 1948, Various sources
