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"La grande aventure, c'est de voir surgir quelque chose d'inconnu, chaque jour, dans le même visage. C'est plus grand que tous les voyages autour du monde."
Alberto Giacometti
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"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. "
Walt Whitman
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"Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life."
Agnes Martin
7
"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. "
e.e. cummings
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"Moonlight is sculpture."
Nathanial Hawthorne
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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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"Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump."
Auguste Rodin
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"If I have a boy friend who has been nasty to me, I will make a sculpture of him—maybe as a duck. But I don't do that to those who are nice to me."
Marisol
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We are all the shape of nature, our inner sound, our heartbeat, is the rhythm of the universe, for sure. What else can it be? Sometimes we're in contact with it and sometimes we're not.'
Pat Steir
4
"Sincerity is the quality where your imperfections show."
Edward Espe Brown
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"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."
Paul Klee
7
"A straight line is godless"
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
7
“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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"If we want to live and work, we must be very sensible and look after ourselves. Cold water, fresh air, simple good food, decent clothes, a decent bed, and no women..." "
Vincent Van Gogh
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"The heavens themselves run continually round, the sun riseth and sets, the moon increaseth, stars and planets keep their constant motions, the air is still tossed by the winds, the waters ebb and flow, to their conservation no doubt, to teach us that we should ever be in motion."
Robert Burton: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
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“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.”
Roland Barthes
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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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