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“Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'”

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Ken Danby, a British painter, was born on March 6, 1940, and passed away on September 23, 2007. Known for his unique use of color and abstract expressionist style, his works have received high praise in the art world. more

“The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.”

Mind Persons Space Creative Essentials Infinite Privilege Dimensions Balanced Serenity Equilibrium Outer Space Creative Person

Book:Mark Tobey: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings 1925-1961 Whitechapel Gallery, London 1962

Source: Mark Tobey: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings 1925-1961 Whitechapel Gallery, London 1962

“All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.”

World Reality Serenity Interiors

Book:Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine

Source: Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine

“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.”

Feels Order Contemplation Contemplating Serenity Stay Strong Stay Positive

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.”

Ifs Artist Serenity Monk Ordination

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.”

Believe Made I Can Existence Objects Intellectual Discovery Harmony Revelations Perpetual Serenity Rapport Non Existence

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).”

Way Games Emotion Emotional Increase Complexes Average Boredom Opera Humankind Soap Soap Operas Primates

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.”

Feelings Home Emotion Sentiments Exalted Emotions Feelings

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Literature Grief Emotion

Book:Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

“We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.”

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