Ernesto Neto famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I always have a plan, but itâ€™s like the plan for a journey. Once youâ€™re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something thatâ€™s just as you planned it, then you havenâ€™t created art.
-- Ernesto Neto

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My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers, but sex is like a snake, it slithers through everything.
-- Ernesto Neto

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In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside
-- Ernesto Neto

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I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.
-- Ernesto Neto

#Art #Journey #Things Change

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfÃªted but life-enhancing thoughts.
We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it

Ernesto Neto famous quotes

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