Irving Sandler Quotes

• There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.

  Irving Sandler

  Artist, Meetings, Knows

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• I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.

  Irving Sandler

  Clever, Believe, Hard Work

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• In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism.

  Irving Sandler

  Real, Copying, Way

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• It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

  Irving Sandler

  Eras, Impossible, Modernism

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