“ I don’t want to give the impression that I think that art comes only from on high. Real art can come from the damnedest place. I like the barbaric yawp [quoting Walt Whitman] of insurgent art because I think of the great modernists as that too…. There is so much … Insurgent and barbaric yawpishness in Picasso and even in Matisse! I’m always looking in younger artists to see that there, that barbaric yawp part that’s so vital and that comes from the most unexpected quarters.
William Harsh
