Hans Hartung famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change...
-- Hans Hartung

#Able #Conformity #Oneself
Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.
-- Hans Hartung

#Expression #Feels
The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.
-- Hans Hartung

#Freedom #Artist #Ideas

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

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