Irving Sandler Professions : Art critic Born : July 22, 1925 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Irving Sandler 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. Irving Sandler hard-work clever believe 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. Irving Sandler copying real way It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did. Irving Sandler modernism eras impossible There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking. Irving Sandler meetings artist knows Similar Authors Brian Sewell art-critic Arthur Danto art-critic Bernard Berenson art-critic Donald Kuspit art-critic Deborah Solomon art-critic David Sylvester art-critic All Authors