John Massey

1930

American painter

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1963

"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point. All other things--to reign, to hoard, to build--are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages."--Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588. From the ser

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1966

The Force "The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower/Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees/Is my destroyer./And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose/My youth is bent by the same wintry fever." -

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1972

"Open up, Pandora./Tear off that cover that shields you from the people, the things around you./Expose the Black Box that is your soul, your very person, and relate, Pandora./Participate."--Washington University Student

John Massey Smithsonian American Art Museum
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