Jerry Saltz Mark Grotjahn’s large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another. – Jerry Saltz Abound Quotes Braid Quotes Bundles Quotes Cascading Quotes Grotjahns Quotes Impasto Quotes Laid Quotes Mark Quotes Overlap Quotes Paintings Quotes Ropy Quotes Swell Quotes Thickets Quotes Torrents Quotes Waves Quotes It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He’s the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed. I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn’s work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn’t simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved ‘isms’ and twists.
Chael Sonnen I’m not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn’t have a road to the title. – Chael Sonnen
Robert Glasper I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it’s better to do something that’s inspired by them – a new work that’s inspired by them – versus another person saying they redid your song. – Robert Glasper
Rosalia My mother always had flowers at home, they were always there. In the garden, on the table, fresh flowers. I think I relate flowers to the women in my life. – Rosalia
George Benson If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That’s why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist. – George Benson
Pramila Jayapal Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can’t continue to allow it. – Pramila Jayapal
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