"Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint."

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Source : Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

Pierre Soulages

#Black Quotes #One Day Quotes #Ink Quotes

“Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.”
“There is beauty in feeding others when you are spiritually or physically hungry yourself.”
“I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.”
“The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.”
“The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be proud of. They're just a sacred trust... Having been given, I must give. Man shall not live by bread alone, and what the farmer does I must do. I must feed the people - with my songs.”
“Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn”
“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”

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