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+ Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit
on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb. |
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+ Create like a god, command like a king, work like
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has
long been considered as one of the primary elements
of the composition. |
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At some point we’ve got to stop asking ourselves
what is the meaning of everything, maybe it’s
not so very important what it means. It’s probably
more important what the sense of it is.. they are
two very basic and different things. |
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Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful
thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but
art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps
change direction.. they are completely different. |
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I didn't want to get into something which is played
out and narrow. I want to do as I like, invent my
own interests. |
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it
as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. |
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I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically
involved in the production. I don't have the necessary
abilities, so I go to the top people.. |
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The relationship between my painting and my sculpture
is intimately connected. I would never begin a sculpture
without first experiencing color. |
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+ If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,
it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. |
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+ What I am seeking is not the real and not the
unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of
the instinctive in the human race. |
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There are universal shapes to which everyone is
subconsciously conditioned and to which they can
respond if their conscious control does not shut
them off. |
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The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of
placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that
of nature. But I am also a sculptor of the West.
I place my mark and do not hide. |
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The sculptor represents the transition from one
pose to another.. he indicates how insensibly the
first glides into the second. In his work we still
see a part of what was and we discover a part of
what is to be. |
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I'm not precious about my work. If you get it out
into the urban field it's going to be used or misused
but it'll also probably provide a way of people
acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because
people have to confront it every day. |
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+ I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in
the art world, but it's hard to be old and like
what goes on around you. |
Below is a listing of famous artists that focused
on other arts, like painting, print making or photography,
but also created a good amount of sculpture.
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+ ...I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint
their pictures, their work as painters, and their
portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits
ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair.
I myself have never been able to work out why this
happens. |
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+ Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to
have it at 50. |
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What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises
me, that it violates my customary valuations of
things and offers me other, unexpected ones. |
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I think art is good at looking back and looking
forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on.
At the end of the day, people are more important
than paintings. |
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+ Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. |
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+ I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical,
that does something other than sit on its ass in
a museum. |
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its
bidding. |
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+ Art is the thrilling spark that beats death
- thats all. |
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