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- Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust…
- To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what…
- Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing…
- My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean…
- I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary…
- The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no…
- To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the…
- Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only…
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
- In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a…
- The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because…
- I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I…
- As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the works on paper…
- The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses…
- And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white…
- I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They…
- The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only…
- The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing…
- Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only…
- Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so…
- My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...
- I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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