Morton Feldman
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“What was great about the '50s is that, for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.”
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“Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.”
― Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings
― Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings
“I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.”
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