Deborah Kass Quotes
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.
I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
