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🇺🇸William Blake

Art

Romanticism

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

"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

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

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

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🇺🇸Willem de Kooning

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1997

"complete text of De Kooning's lecture 'What Abstract Art Means to Me' February 5, 1951 - on the 'What is Abstract Art?' symposium, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 5, 1951"

"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."

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

"Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis."

"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 try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger."

"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."

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

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

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

"The time when physically nothing is happening is equally important."

"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."

".. the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms'"

"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 believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel."

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🇩🇪Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Literature

Dada

1874–1927

"Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life."

🇫🇷Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Art

vorticism

1891–1915

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

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

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

"Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life."

"'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."

"I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis."

"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."

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🇫🇷Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art

Impressionism

1841–1919

"The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!"

"Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around."

"Work of the late cybernetic sculptor Edward Ihnatowicz"

"Everyone has a different format for how they want to reveal what they are thinking, or what they are seeing, to the audience…I just had to let go of the audience and just started thinking about what I wanted to see."

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