The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
