"Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?"

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“Two men dressed in white jeans with white caps on their heads.. ..climbing over a large sign of white letters. Of course, the words spell something, but that is unimportant. What is important is their white, and the white of the letters.”

“At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.”

“White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.”

“My first lesson in relativity: ..we had a still life set-up to paint. Suddenly I saw that the pitcher was so big and the glass was so big. From that time on everything was all right.”

“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”

“Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.”

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— Fethullah Gülen

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