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“But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.”
Anselm Kiefer
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“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.”
Roland Barthes
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"Un jour, alors que je dessinais une petite fille, je me rendis soudain compte que la seule chose qui était vivante était son regard. Le reste de son visage ne signifiait rien de plus pour moi que le crâne d’un homme mort. On veut sculpter une personne vivante, mais ce qui le rend vivant c’est en fait son regard... Tout le reste n’est que l’encadrement du regard"
Alberto Giacometti
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I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
Howard Hodgkin
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'Esthetic' is the central component of true experience: "The esthetic is no intruder in experience from without, whether by way of idle luxury or transcendent ideality, but that it is the clarified and intensified development of traits that belong to every normally complete experience."
John Dewey
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'mumble, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, fantastic climax, mumble, mumble, and back into the Chaos from which they had all derived. At this superhigh level of art, literature...appeals to that secret depth of the human soul where the shadows of other worlds pass like the shadow of nameless and soundless ships'
Vladimir Nabokov, describing the plot of Gogol's "The Overcoat"
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"I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him ... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model."
Vincent van Gogh
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"One is never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you knew already, but what you have just discovered."
William Hazlitt
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