Monthly Archives: September 2014

Jean Dubuffet

Art must be born from the material and spirituality must borrow the language of the material.

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Max Ernst

If it is the feathers that make the plumage, it is not the glue that makes the glue.

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Joubert

The art is to hide the art.

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Hans Hartung

Scribbling, scratching, acting on the canvas, and painting seem to me to be human activities that are as immediate, spontaneous and simple as the singing, dancing or playing of an animal, which runs, mews or snorts.

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Euripide

The superior man is one who remains always faithful to hope; not persevere is a coward.

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Henri Focillon

The sign signifies, while the form signifies itself.

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Julien Gracq

So many hands to transform this world, and so few eyes to contemplate it.

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Maurice de Guérin

Form is the happiness of matter.

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E. Jaloux

The work of art has a mystical mission to redeem reality.

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Valéry Larbaud

Art is still the only bearable form of life: the greatest enjoyment, and the one that wears out the least quickly.

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