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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the... →
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to... →
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to... →
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently... →
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to... →
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including... →
My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely... →
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that... →
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a... →
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