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“What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.”

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Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter known for his distinctive lines and sculptural figures. His works had a profound impact on the modern art scene in the early 20th century. more

“We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.”

World Feels Sometimes Moving Certain Clear Mystery Wind Quiet Illusion Eternity Refuse Realization Granted Entity Fabric Fringe Inhuman Serendipity Vistas

Book:Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

Source: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

“My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.”

Wells Kind Hands Dark Higher Function Spheres Great Friend

Author:Paul Klee

“My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”

Hands Instruments Ripe Obedient Ripe Fruit

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.”

Rounds Good Work Accord

Author:Paul Klee

“I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.”

Knows Paint Canvas Middlemen

Author:Peter Max

“All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.”

Art Moments Artist Hours Art Is Blessed Sacred Impulse Sacred Moments

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.”

Universe Process Tunes Vibrations

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.”

Oneself Brushes

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I prefer to see with closed eyes.”

Eye Perception Abstraction Closed Eyes

Author:Josef Albers

“The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.”

Ifs Should Fronts Painting Perception Paint Painter

Book:Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting

Source: Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting

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