Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Deborah Kass

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Deborah Kass.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Deborah Kass is an American artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and the construction of self. Deborah Kass works in mixed media, and is most recognized for her paintings, prints, photography, sculptures and neon lighting installations. Kass's early work mimics and reworks signature styles of iconic male artists of the 20th century including Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Ed Ruscha. Kass's technique of appropriation is a critical commentary on the intersection of social power relations, identity politics, and the historically dominant position of male artists in the art world.

American - Artist | Born: 1952

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Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

Deborah Kass

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Deborah Kass

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.

Deborah Kass

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.

Deborah Kass

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

Deborah Kass

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.

Deborah Kass

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Deborah Kass

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.

Deborah Kass

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

Deborah Kass