„For a long time I limited myself to one colour — as a form of discipline.“

— Pablo Picasso

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„Later I had two green ones [alligator pears] — not so perfect. I painted them several times [c. 1920] when the men [American modernist artists, a. o. Marsden Hartley ] didn't think much of what I was doing. They were all discussing Paul Cézanne, with long involved remarks about the 'plastic quality' of his form and colour. I was an outsider. My colour and form were not acceptable. It had nothing to do with Cézanne or anything else. I didn't understand what they were talking about why one colour was better than another... Years later when I finally got to Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire in the south of France, I remember sitting there thinking, 'How could they attach all those analytical remarks to anything he did with that mountain?“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,And accrue what I hear into myself… and let sound contribute toward me.“
— Walt Whitman
„I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.“
— Marcel Duchamp
„time is a tree (this life one leaf)but love is the sky and i am for youjust so long and long enough“
— E.E. Cummings
„When you come after Americans, we go after you. It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit.“
— Barack Obama