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🇫🇷Louis Pasteur

Science

1904–1989

"S’il est terrifiant de penser que la vie puisse être à la merci de la multiplication de ces infiniment petits, il est consolant aussi d’espérer que la science ne restera pas toujours impuissante devant de tels ennemis."

"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."

"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."

"If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future."

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🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

high-tech architecture

1895–1983

"There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity."

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"My works are not just rhetorical, except in the sense that all art is rhetorical. I believe in beauty."

"Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things."

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🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication."

"Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order."

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Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art

Expressionism

1876–1907

"I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!"

"I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense..."

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🇺🇸Franz Kline

Music

abstract expressionism

1910–1962

"I think that if you use long lines, they become – what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges."

"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."

"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence—the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."

"I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday..."

"I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli in some degree."

"The glaring obviousness of my paternity of monochromy in the twentieth century is such that even if I myself were to fight hard against that fact I should probably never manage to rid myself of it."

"Market optimism that this time is different is misguided and dangerous."

"'How can you exploitation?' 'How can you like the complete mechanization of work?' 'How can you like bad art?' I have to answer that I accept it as being there, in the world."

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🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."

🇫🇷Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Art

vorticism

1891–1915

"One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs ."

"Atomic physics, was the worst thing that happened in the 20th century."

"The Bases of the New Creation and the Reasons Why It Is Misunderstood."

"No one knows what it feels like to be constantly insulted . It sickens and destroys you.. .The fools! They've never stopped telling me I'm inconsistent ; they couldn't have said anything more flattering."

"Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate."

"For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future."

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

"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."

🇺🇸John Singer Sargent

Art

Impressionism

1856–1925

"The Sargent Murals at Boston Public Library"

"The Futurists were the first painters, poets, and architects who exalted modern work with their art—"

"When I blow up a balloon, I am breathing my soul into an object that becomes eternal."

"When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just as system supersedes structure."

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