Quotes by : Ross Wetzsteon

There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks....

Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed....

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate....

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology....

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most....