Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe,” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.

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Mots clés depression gertrude-stein



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There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

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Mots clés art criticism artist



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Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. “Doctor,” said a woman’s voice, “my child has swallowed a mouse.” “Then get him to swallow a cat,” he replied, and slammed down the receiver.

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Mots clés doctor williamcarloswilliams



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As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

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Mots clés literature movement



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It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

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Mots clés talent writing genius djunabarnes tseliot



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Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson...bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, “I am nature.

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Mots clés painting jackson-pollack



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[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

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Mots clés art artist aesthetics painting barnett-newman



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Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love?

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Mots clés painting painter jackson-pollack



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