“I had a huge anger within me. I just didn’t like the world. I didn’t like anyone.” —Robert Kipniss
“There is a pleasure principle in all art, OK? For me that must include something else which is incredibly important, which is what I talked about before—that human element.” —Burton Silverman
Ira Goldberg: You mentioned to me that you attended Robert Beverly Hale’s anatomy lectures. What year was that? Paul Resika: It was when I came back from Europe in 1954. It was much too late for me to be learning anatomy. How long were you in Europe? I was in Paris in 1950. Around Christmas time…
I wanted to be a good artist, but I wanted to define what that meant.
“If I had any flair and ability as an artist, it lay with interpreting people, whether the cowboy or the pretty girl. I called it “cowboys and cleavage.” —Everett Raymond Kinstler
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