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„There was one artist who wrote as beautifully as he painted. That was Hokusai – He speaks for all artists, whether they are painters or not. [He wrote]: “I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy three I have at last caught every aspect of nature-birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further. And I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime, and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life.”“
„Paint what you like and die happy“
„There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce [c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors]“
„it was the period I think of as the age of the pillow… What I wanted to bring out – is that which cannot be measured – I wanted to bring out the tired movement in the eyelids – the lips must look as though they are whispering – she must look as though she is breathing – I want life – what is alive.“
„The only influences in [the painting ‘The sick Child’, Munch painted in his elderly home, remembering very accurate the last days of his dying little sister Sophie] ‘The sick Child’…. were the ones that come from my home…. my childhood and my home. Only someone who knew the conditions at home could possibly understand why there can be no conceivable chance of any other place having played a part – my home is to my art as a midwife is to her children…. few painters have ever experienced the full grief of their subject as I did in ‘The sick child.“
„By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.“
„One sunny spring day I heard the music coming down Karl Johan [street] and it filled me with joy. The spring, the sun, the music, all blended together to make me shiver with pleasure. The music added colour to the colours. I painted the picture [his painting ‘Music on Karl Johan’] allowing the colours to reverberate with the rhythm of the music. I painted the colours as I saw them at that moment.“
„Could only have been painted by a madman.“
„Realism’s ‘truth’ as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the eye or heard by the ear. Realism is concerned only with the external shell of nature. People content with the discoveries they have made ignore the fact that there are other things to be discovered, even broader avenues to be explored. They have found bacteria, but not what they consist of. [quote of 1892)“
„I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic.Then people would see!A strong naked arm – a tanned powerful neck a young woman rests her head on the arching chest.She closes her eyes and listens with open and quivering lips to the words he whispers into her long flowing hair.I should paint that image just as I saw it – but in the blue haze.Those two at that moment, no longer merely themselves, but simply a link in the chain binding generation to generation.People should understand the significance, the power of it. They should remove their hats like they do in church.There should be no more pictures of interiors, of people reading and women knitting.There would be pictures of real people who breathed, suffered, felt, loved.I felt impelled – it would be easy. The flesh would have volume – the colours would be alive.There was an interval. The music stopped. I was a little sad. I remembered how many times I had had similar thoughts – and that once I had finished the painting – they had simply shaken their heads and smiled.Once again I found myself out on the Boulevard des Italiens.“
„I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall.“
„No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.“
„The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which one sees also depends on one’s mood…. coming in from a dark bedroom in the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything in a bluish light. Even the deepest shadows are topped with bright light. After a while one will accustom oneself to the light and the shadows will be deeper and everything will be seen more sharply. If an atmosphere of this kind is being painted it won’t do merely to sit and gaze at everything ‘just as one sees’. One must paint precisely the fleeting moment of significance – one must capture the exact experience separating that significant moment from the next – the exact moment when the motif struck one… In some circumstances a chair may seem to be just as interesting as a human being. In some way or another it must have caught the interest in which case the onlooker’s interest must somehow be engaged in the same way. It’s not the chair that should be painted, but what the person has felt at the sight of it [written in Saint Cloud, 1890 – probably related to the chair of Vincent van Gogh“
„He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren’t sure we saw.“
„I wanted to get away from the physical act of painting… For me the title (‘Fresh Widow’, 1920), with inscription under: ‘Fresh Widow Copyright Rose Sélavy, 1920’, [probably referring to all the widows because of the many killings of soldiers in World War, 1. which ended in 1918] was very important… I was interested in ideas – not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.“
„The Dada movement was an anti-movement which corresponded to a need born of the first World War. Although neither literary nor pictorial in essence, Dada found its exponents in painters and writers scattered all over the world. Max Ernst’s activities in Cologne in 1917 made him the foremost representative of the Dada painters. Between 1919 and 1921 his paintings, drawings and collages depicting the world of the subconscious were already a foretaste of Surrealism… In fact his previous achievements had certainly influenced, to a great extent, the literary Surrealist exploration of the subconscious.“
„Miro came of age as an artist just at the time World War 1. ended. With the end of the war came the end of all the new pre-war art conceptions. A young painter could not start as a Cubist or a Futurist, and Dada was the only manifestation at the moment. Miro began by painting farm scenes from the countryside of Barcelona, his native land… A few years later he came to Paris [circa 1914] and found himself among the Dadaists who were, at that time, transmuting into Surrealism. In spite of this contact Miró kept aloof from any direct influence and showed a series of canvases in which form submitted to strong colouring expressed a new two-dimensional cosmogony, in no way related to abstraction.“
„Another aspect of the ‘readymade’ is its lack of uniqueness…. the replica of a ‘readymade’ delivering the same message; in fact nearly every one of the ‘ready-made’s existing today is not an original in the conventional sense.Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are ‘ready-made’s aided’ and also works of assemblage.“
„.. because his applying paint to it [the sculpture ‘Painted Bronze, two painted ale cans’, created by the American pré-Pop Art artist Jasper Johns ] was absolutely mechanical or, at least, as close to the printed thing as possible. It was not an act of painting; actually, the printing [or painting? ] was just like printing except it was made by hand by him. That doesn’t add a thing to it.“
„So if I say you that your paintings [which his brother-in-law recently made] have nothing in common with what we see generally classified and accepted, and that you have always managed to produce things that were entirely your own work, as I truly see it, that does not mean you have the right to be seated next to Leonardo -What’s more, this originality is suicidal as it distances you from a ‘clientele’ used to ‘copies of copiers’, often referred to as ‘tradition’-One more thing, your technique is not the ‘expected’ technique – It’s your own personal technique, borrowed from nobody – and there again, this doesn’t attract the clientele…. In a word, do less self-analysis and enjoy your work without worrying about opinions, your own as well as that of others.“
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