My favorite non Art quote

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx

3 by de Kooning

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in – like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity. (Willem de Kooning)




I The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. (Willem de Kooning)




What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith. (Willem de Kooning)

de Kooning

Materials

I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown. It's then that I begin to work... when I don't have the comfort of sureness and certainty. (Robert Rauschenberg)

Robert Rauschenberg

Knowing and not knowing

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed. (Ken Kesey)

Paul Cezanne

obsession

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing. (Grace Hartigan)

Accept

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living. (Jim Dine)

Jim Dine’s “Blind Owl” (2000), charcoal and oil, is among the modern works collected by Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare.

follow your heart

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. (Steve Jobs)

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