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“A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.”

Quote by R. B. Kitaj

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R.B. Kitaj, a British-born artist, is renowned for his unique painting style and complex themes. His works often integrate autobiographical, historical, and philosophical elements, exploring the relationship between individual and collective memory. Kitaj's work holds a significant place in the British art scene in the second half of the 20th century. more

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“My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.”

Form Stuff Secret Painting Right Now Allowing Secret Life

Author:R. B. Kitaj

“Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.”

People Done Painting Fool Consequence Portraiture

Author:R. B. Kitaj

“I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.”

Trying Years Mind Lasts Dies Theme

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“The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.”

Humour Distance Ironic

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.”

Wells Forgotten Technique Access Crafts Unconscious

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“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

Ifs World Way Writing Trying Art Facts Stories Earth Form Artist Order Force Natural Behinds Vision Novel Creation Objects Planets Chaos Driven Impulse Appropriate Screenplays Planet Earth

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“I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning.”

Way Littles Long Art Laughing Humour Sells Rejection Discovering Reserves Packages

Author:Mark Evelyn Heath

“Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you.”

Mean Littles Choices Ideals Pressure Contemplating Idealism

Author:Shere Hite

“Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.”

Ideas Good Ideas

Author:David Gelernter

“Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.”

Believe Reality Painting Illusion Blue Wings Invisible Visible Leap Bugs Leap Of Faith

Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery