Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
5689
AUTHOR:
Thomas Hart Benton
QUOTATION:
I lapsed into my favorite role as the old curmudgeon with the cotton-candy heart.
ATTRIBUTION:
On advising people in his “home country” of Joplin MO to “get some satisfaction out of this mural now—for it is now that you’re stuck with it and now that you’re going to pay for it, all $60,000,” quoted in NY Times 26 Mar 73
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Art: Painters & Sculptors
