Quotes

“In the end, reality interests me less than truth. Reality is the social aspect. Newspapers and tv are full of it. My artistic problem is not reality. It is what I call truth. Something which is more unworldly” Catherine Breillat, Director, French

via “My artistic problem is not reality. It is what I call truth.” — Art of Quotation

“I hope with this mural people will realize we have to take care of the world.” source Argentine muralist Andres Iglesias, who signs his art with the pseudonym Cobre, regarding his San Francisco mural of environmental activist Greta Thunberg

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“I think I always wondered if I did exist, ’cause everything that made me kind of rich died away, dropped away early in my life. The work became how I knew I was a whole human being.” “She hit upon one of her signature methods while living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in […]

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“Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.” Anthony Caro, sculptor

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There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that’s impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants. Arnold Newman, photographer

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Sometimes people ask me what it takes to be a writer. The only things you have to do, I tell them, are read constantly; write for thousands of hours; and have the masochistic ability to absorb a great deal of rejection and isolation. As it turns out, these qualities have prepared me well to deal […]

via “Our real enemy is not the virus but our response to the virus.” — Art of Quotation

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. Mark Twain

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Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything. Leonard Missone, Belgian, photographer

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And as things fell apart Nobody paid much attention song quote from Nothing But Flowers, 1988, performed by The Talking Heads. Songwriters: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth In the News: ‘It’s positively alpine!’: Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls “(Nothing But) Flowers” Here we stand Like an Adam and an […]

via “This was a discount store, Now it’s turned into a cornfield… Don’t leave me stranded here I can’t get used to this lifestyle” — Art of Quotation

“Drawing is not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.” Henri Matisse. painter

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