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“It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.”

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Bill Reid, born on January 12, 1920, was a renowned Canadian artist known for his exquisite silver and bronze sculptures, deeply influenced by Native American culture. His works have had a profound impact on the art world, showcasing not only his skill but also his respect and love for Native American culture. more

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“I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.”

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“It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.”

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“The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.”

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“I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.”

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“If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.”

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“It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks.”

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“An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.”

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“In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.”

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“It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.”

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Source: The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009

“The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.”

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