Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Nationality: American Type: Businessman Born: August 19, 1870 Death: June 20, 1965 |
I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.