"I see the Artist as a Cool Spectator-Reporter at an Arena of Hot Events."

– Stuart Davis

"Reality in art is composed of shapes and colors."

– Stuart Davis

"An artist who has traveled on a steam train, driven an automobile, or flown in an airplane doesn't feel the same way about form and space as one who has not."

– Stuart Davis

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Introducing Stuart Davis...

Davis is generally considered to be the outstanding American artist to work in a Cubist idiom. He made witty and original use of it and created a distinctive American style, for however abstract his works became he always claimed that every image he used had its source in observed reality: "I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American Scene."

Importance in Amercian Art History

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