cetacean quotes

I dread this like the dentist, rather more so: To me Art's subject is the human clay, And landscape but a background to a torso; All Ce z anne's apples I would give away For one small Goya or a Daumier.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'Letter to Byron', pt.3, stanza 20, collected in Poems, Essays, Dramatic Writings1927^1939 (1977).

'Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?' 'No,'said the Whale.'What is it like?' 'Nice,'said the small 'Stute Fish.'Nice but nubbly.'

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Just So Stories,'How the Whale Got His Throat'.

The New York Pop artists are often asked whether or not they like their subjects. This, as Dorothy Seckler has noted, is as irrelevant as asking whether Ce  zanne liked apples,Ge  ricault corpses, or Picasso guitars.

- Lucy Lippard
  Pop  Art.