Artist
During his years at NYU, Lord and his brother Bill opened the Village Academy of Arts. Jack's childhood dream was to become an artist. His first professional sale was in 1941 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for his two linoleum cuts, entitled Vermont and Fishing Shacks, Block Island.
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“Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)