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“A canvas is never empty.”
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‘White Painting [three panel],’ 1951
Robert Rauschenberg
SFMOMA, San Francisco
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

"We have art so that we shall not die of reality."
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‘Friedrich Nietzsche,’ 1906
Edvard Munch
Munch-museet, Oslo, Norway
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.”
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‘The Park Bench,’ 1946
Horace Pippin
On view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

"I do not judge, I only chronicle."
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‘Gertrude Kingston,’ 1909
John Singer Sargent
On view at the Morgan Library & Museum, NYC
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“John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal”
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

"No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times."
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'Sky Cathedral,' 1958
Louise Nevelson
MoMA, NYC
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.”
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‘Trabum (Element Series),’ 1951
Carl Andre
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.”
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‘Back Lot, Isleton, California,’ 1986
Robert Dawson
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“Others may know better how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture.”
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‘The Shipwreck,’ 1772
Claude-Joseph Vernet
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
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‘Campbell’s Soup Cans,’ 1962
Andy Warhol
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.”
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‘The Subway,’ 1950
George Tooker
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

"...I considered any art pointless if it did not put itself at the disposal of political struggle...my art was to be a gun and a sword."
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���Eclipse of the Sun,’ 1926
George Grosz
Heckscher Museum of Art
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

"Without atmosphere a painting is nothing."
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‘The Night Watch,’ 1642
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“You must plan to be spontaneous.”
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‘A Bigger Splash,’ 1967
David Hockney
Tate Collection
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“Abstract art ... searches for new ways to achieve harmony and equilibrium.”
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‘Tondo Variation in Red,’ 1978
Ilya Bolotowsky
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.”
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‘The Rainbow Landscape,’ 1636
Peter Paul Rubens
The Wallace Collection, London
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.”
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‘The Return,’ 1956-8
Philip Guston
Tate Collection
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.”
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‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884,’ 1884-6
Georges Seurat
The Art Institute of Chicago
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

“What I'm fascinated about is basic human questions as what reality is, why we are here, and the limitation of our senses which are not allowing us to ever really answer those questions.”
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‘ParaPivot I and II,’ 2019
Alicja Kwade
Met Museum, NYC
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(Photo: Alicja Kwade)

[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

"I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow."
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‘Blue Green Red,’ 1964
Ellsworth Kelly
Whitney Museum of American Art
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[Fortress New York @FortressNY]

'Robert Gould Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint Gaudens,' 1973
Richard Benson
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
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