Squeak Carnwath famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.
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Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.
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When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.
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It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.
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Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.
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The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.
-- Squeak Carnwath
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
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Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
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A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
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Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
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Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.
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