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Art Quote by Eva Hesse

“I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable” quote by Eva Hesse — Download Open image

“I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable”

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There's not been one normal thing in my life.

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I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.

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Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

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I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A difficult problem…

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Artists don't think archivally.

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Art and life are inseparable.

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Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.

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First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

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Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing…

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Excellence has no sex.

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Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.

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What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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