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“We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...”

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The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here…

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Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

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

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If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most…

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Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

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Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

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To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts.

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Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

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My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and…

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There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are…

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We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

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The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures…

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Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas…

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

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A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the…

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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

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The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the…

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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

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For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

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The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as…

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A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,…

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I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really…

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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

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