Vija Celmins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.
-- Vija Celmins

#Memories #Feelings #Dense
There aren't really rules for painting, but thereâ€™s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. Theyâ€™re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.
-- Vija Celmins

#Fiction #Facts #Painting
I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.
-- Vija Celmins

#Artist #Thinking #Feelings

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one anotherâ€™s customs and opinions; respect for one anotherâ€™s rights and feelings; awareness of one anotherâ€™s needs.
Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
I remember everything about itâ€”with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

Vija Celmins famous quotes

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