Pause for Thought

Abakanowicz on Art

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Sunday, 21 November 2004 15:33
"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 15:25
"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 22:15
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
 

Balthus on Language

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:25
"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 22:26
"Believe it or not, I can actually draw."
 

Bierce on Painting

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Sunday, 21 November 2004 14:21
"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 22:22
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
 

Brancusi on Architecture

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:34
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
 

Brancusi on Essence

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:23
"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 22:24
"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 15:27
"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 15:30
"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 21:58
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
 

Cézanne on Painting

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:57
"Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation."
 

CEZANNE ON THE LOUVRE

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Monday, 28 March 2005 15:45
"The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read"
 

Chagall 4th Dimension

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:55
"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 22:38
"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."
 

Chagall on Nature

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:52
"The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away."
 

Chagall on Talent

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:53
"My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent."
 

Chuck Close Speaks

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Monday, 28 March 2005 15:43
"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around"
 

Churchill on Architecture

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Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:29
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
 
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