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"I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both sides, in those years. It had an almost theological intensity, and in anot..."

"I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art."

"I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls."

"The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have killed it with their twaddle. Art is killed by the twaddle of the art historia..."

"The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men."

"But what is the use of the humanities as such? Admittedly they are not practical, and admittedly they concern themselves with the past. Why, it may be asked, should we engage in impractical investigat..."

"I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business."

"The only road to freedom is self-education in art. Art is not a luxury for any advancedcivilization; it is a necessity, without which creative intelligence will wither and die. Evenin economically tro..."

"In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators."

"I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that w..."