{"author":"Ross Wetzsteon","author_id":"Ross+Wetzsteon","total_quotes":5,"quotes":[{"text":"As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.","author":"Ross Wetzsteon","tags":["literature","movement"],"id":105710,"author_id":"Ross+Wetzsteon"},{"text":"Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe,” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.","author":"Ross Wetzsteon","tags":["depression","gertrude-stein"],"id":150060,"author_id":"Ross+Wetzsteon"},{"text":"There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.","author":"Ross Wetzsteon","tags":["art","artist","criticism"],"id":203744,"author_id":"Ross+Wetzsteon"},{"text":"[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,.","author":"Ross Wetzsteon","tags":["aesthetics","art","artist","barnett-newman","painting"],"id":275147,"author_id":"Ross+Wetzsteon"},{"text":"It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.","author":"Ross Wetzsteon","tags":["djunabarnes","genius","talent","tseliot","writing"],"id":440107,"author_id":"Ross+Wetzsteon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}