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“Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.”

Quote by Glenn Ligon

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Glenn Ligon, born in 1960, is a renowned visual artist from the United States. His works focus on themes of race, gender, and identity, using painting, sculpture, and installation art to deeply reveal the historical and cultural conflicts in American society. more

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“Who hath seen the Phantom Ship, Her lordly rise and lowly dip, Careering o'er the lonesome main, No port shall know her keel again... Ah, woe is in the awful sight, The sailor finds there eternal night, 'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep, And Ocean will the secret keep”

Knows Night Water Sleep Secret Ocean Eternal Sight Ships Awful Woe Sailor Port Phantoms Dip Lonesome Keel

Book:Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder

Source: Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder

“Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.”

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Book:Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961

Source: Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961

“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”

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Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”

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Book:Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947

Source: Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947

“Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.”

Trying Art Ends Feelings Eye Air Modern Worship Strikes Like Me Inches Leafs Worms Clinging Modern Art Twigs

Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.”

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Author:Shadia Drury

“As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.”

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Author:Shadia Drury

“It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.”

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Book:The Theatre of the Absurd

Source: The Theatre of the Absurd

“The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare”

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Author:Martin Esslin

“Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass consumption of hypnotic mechanized vulgarity, the need to confront man with the reality of his situation is greater than ever. For the dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness; to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions - and to laugh at it.”

Source: The Theatre of the Absurd