Carolina QuotesAnd then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp — for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to — a movement for each person and open for everybody.
Willem de Kooning Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Quoted in A Brief History of American Culture (1996) by Robert M. Crunden, p. 279.
- work
- 1990s & from posthumous publications
- year
- 1996
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- p. 279
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