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ARTNEWS called Chump and wanted to name him artist of the century, but he turned them down!
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to feature that painting, and he also turned them down
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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