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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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+ The quest is the transmutation of Self.
+ A painting is a record of the extremely intensified
moments of life – where more than one space,
two senses of time, more than the law even seems
at work, where the emotional forces seem to be propelling
one to a dangerous limit, where reason and explanations
become too enfeebled or too speeded-up to matter.
+ When I'm not fidgeting with infinity, I'm just
fidgeting.
+ I am interested in beauty which can best be described
as being on time for the appointment.
+ I love the stoniness and creaminess, that wonderful
soiled magnolia feeling. Paris is so sensual, beautiful,
flirtatious, mischievous, arrogant, orderly, so
civilized. They call Paris a whore because she seduces
you on every corner, and every street I turned,
I could see another picture.
+ 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 skepticism and am by nature magnetized
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 and 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 center
of the meaning of existence.
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