Best 4 quotes of Irving Sandler on MyQuotes

I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.

In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism.

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.