Abstract Expressionism Art Critics of The Post���world War II Era

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    “We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
    —Salvador Dali (1904–1989)

    “O mischief, thou art swift
    To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When the critics come around it’s always too late.”
    —Sidney, Sir Nolan (1917–1992)

    “I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)