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[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, __esthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,
Ross Wetzsteon Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960
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[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, __esthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,
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Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

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