R. B. Kitaj famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
-- R. B. Kitaj

#Art #Humanity #Vacuums
My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that...
-- R. B. Kitaj

#Secret #Stuff #Painting
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
-- R. B. Kitaj

#People #Done #Fool
I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.
-- R. B. Kitaj

#Years #Mind #Trying

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.
The world is undoubtedly going through great changes.Â The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew.Â The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.
Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.
Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I`m getting all these offers for work, I`m very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.

R. B. Kitaj famous quotes

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