Art Of Sculpture

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"Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together."

"The 2nd of April at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years."

"I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art."

"original texts of Schwitter's 'Poemas' England 1946"

"There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement."

"I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis."

"Thomas Eakins Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

"To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art."

"..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation."

"Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own."

"In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. . In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting."

"I would feel unhappy in a country with which I disagree with law and morality."

"No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it."

"Somebody in Germany has been talking about my 'silence', saying that it is overrated. What does that mean? , he himself heard this 'rumor' from several American artists! ."

"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable."

"As for what l'm making now, perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!"

"Isn't it human to go beyond the limits, to grow beyond oneself, to strive toward freedom! The round is free."

"Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.. ..is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you’re doing a so-called landscape painting."

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🇺🇸Adolph Gottlieb

Art

abstract expressionism

1903–1974

"oral history interview with Adolph Gottlieb, 1967 Oct. 25; conducted by Dorothy Seckler; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution"

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🇬🇧Damien Hirst

Art

Young British Artists

b. 1965

"I started taking cocaine and drink ... I turned into a babbling fucking wreck."

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🇬🇧Henry Holiday

Art

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1839–1927

"Much fruitless speculation has been spent over supposed hidden meanings in Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark. The inclination to search for these was strictly natural, though the search was destined to fail."

"The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself."

"Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don’t want that kind of praise…I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something."

"My sculpture is altogether different from Rodin’s.. ..In sculpture he always sees the flesh first."

"In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world."

"Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems."

"The various objects of the universe may be constant, at times, but their reciprocal relationships always vary."

"Tactile space separates us from objects, as opposed to visual space, which separates objects from one another. I have spent my life trying to paint the former kind."

"I try to make concrete that which is abstract."

"There was nothing left between me and the void. I must have spent several minutes lying on my stomach with my eyes closed to resist its almost invincible attraction."

"…Quilting was a method of artistic expression that could also be used to cover people, to keep them warm, but which also put designs together to make them beautiful…"

"… each dot: the center of a circle without circumference …"

"One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him disappears, the stranger his head becomes."

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