Kendall Storay

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Storay's work is in a few museums, including The San Francisco Museum of Art and the Pierpont Morgan Library and in numerous private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Harry Weldon Wallace Collection of Chinese Art, and several private collections. He and his wife have spent six or seven summers living in Europe.

Personal Quotes:

• "Although my influences and tutoring have been limited, I have made tremendous academic progress toward becoming a great classicist."
• "I've done some of the best abstract types, and I have a little piece that I'm working on."
• "I've been teaching art for eighteen years, and there has never been a day when I did not use the value of the thing that I was using."
• "I would say that being in an art department at all is a stepping-stone to being in any department at all."
• "This kind of obsession with drawing is unlike most disciplines. There is a reason why much of the art historical literature says that this kind of draw is essentially non-significant. There is great history and scholarship in the study of drawing. It's not about the drawing of figures of non-minimal significance. There is a great deal in drawing of the vanishing points, the things that you get closest to your eyes and the things that you leave out."
• "Dada was all about working outside of a prescribed program. What Artaud said, in terms of making the work of art you can comprehend, is true. Once somebody approaches it, it's really hard and rigorous."
• "I'm not a spiritual person, and I don't try to be. This is not religious; it's about being in contact with reality."
• "When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the idea of the devil. The devil was like a walking blackboard that you could eat your lunch on. I always had a visual reference for that in my mind."
• "I don't know a very few artists. I know maybe five."
• "There's an intrinsic knowledge that you're saying there shouldn't be any value in living. All art is a value.