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"Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work."

"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."

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

"In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy."

"Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand."

"What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own."

"I found in your book the confirmation of my ultimate conclusions and the tools for deepening this aspect of the artistic problem."

"People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries."

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🇬🇧John Minton (artist)

Art

1917–1957

"No one mirrors his age clearer than the artist, for here is the living moment made concrete, the particular made general."

"They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create a New Era?" Answer, "If the Crusades brought a new age, then truly the Era of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." In such consciousness should one proceed."

"Christina Lodder, 'Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design', Tate Papers, no.14, Autumn 2010"

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

"There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories."

"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."

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🇮🇹Giorgio de Chirico

painting

metaphysical painting

1888–1978

"links to a selection of essay-texts, written by de Chirico"

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🇬🇧Edward Gordon Craig

Entertainment

1872–1966

"I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors."

"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."

"A union of purely artistic forms for a utilitarian purpose.."

"Now that we can do anything, what will we do?"

"We have rejected reason because we have found another reason that could be called trans-rational, which has its own law, construction and sense.. .This reason has found a way-Cubism-of expressing the object."

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Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"Through play, we renew contact with childhood - My art is childlike."

"'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."

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

"My feeling is that, if you do your due process and go back to the well, grab the original inspiration and just develop it from the ground up, it is just, by its own nature, going to be different."

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