Source: Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait
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“The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.”
Source: El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts
“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".”
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Source: Jackson Pollock
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.”
“I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.”
“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation”
“While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries”
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“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.”
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
“Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.”
“If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective”
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”
“Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.”
“Art is art. Everything else is everything else.”
Source: Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967
Source: Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco
“Don't think about making art.”
Source: Warhol Memoir
Source: Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
“I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.”