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Inspirational Brett Whiteley Quotes and Sayings |
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Inspirational art quotes by the famous Australian
artist Brett Whiteley
born Brett Whiteley - Australia - 7th of April,
1939 / Died - Thirroul - 15th of June, 1992
Popular Brett Whiteley works
include an early period of abstraction, through to semi-surreal figurative works.
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+ When I'm not fidgeting with infinity, I'm just
fidgeting.
+ Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate
record of the experience of what one isn't, of what
one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming
beautifully what is commonplace or probing authoritatively
the unknown.
+ Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One
must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia.
+ The most fundamental reason one paints is in order
to see.
+ Never trust an art dealer who'll sit in a room
for more than ten minutes with a crooked picture.
+ I can't stand mindless purity - I have soaked
myself in scepticism and am by nature magnetised
to bitterness.
+ Everyone reaches a point in their life where they
must either change or cease.
+ I was intrigued and enormously drawn to extremism
by people who had blown their lives or who had taken
their lives outside the normal conventions of society.
+ Art is the thrilling spark that beats death -
thats all.
+ Everything is such a sort of stoned state... I
walk around with a bunch of violets in my hand and
a sledgehammer and a grain of sand in my head. I
am happy.
+ The fine art of painting, which is the bastard
of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game.
The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given
arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows,
one must visually describe, the centre of the meaning
of existense.
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