1. Pause for Thought

    Abakanowicz on Art

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:33

    "Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind."
     

    Adams on Focus

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:25

    "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
       

    Bacon on an Artist's Job

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:15

    "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
       

    Balthus on Language

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:25

    "Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really."
       

    Basquiat on Drawing

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:26

    "Believe it or not, I can actually draw."
       

    Bierce on Painting

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 09:21

    "Painting: The art of protecting canvas surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critics."
       

    Brancusi "Like A"

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:22

    "Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
       

    Brancusi on Architecture

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:34

    "Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
       

    Brancusi on Essence

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:23

    "What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."
       

    Brancusi on Seeing His Art

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:24

    "Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them."
       

    Braque on Art

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:27

    "There is only one valuable thing in art: it's the thing you cannot explain. "
       

    Cameron on Artist's Way

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:30

    "Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. That is the Artist's Way."
       

    Cézanne on Emotion

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:58

    "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
       

    Cézanne on Painting

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:57

    "Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation."
       

    CEZANNE ON THE LOUVRE

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    Monday, 28 March 2005 10:45

    "The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read"
       

    Chagall 4th Dimension

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:55

    "I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension."
       

    Chagall on Artists' Dignity

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:38

    "The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
       

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