"The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful."

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Source : George Bellows, Catherine Anne Green (1981). “George Bellows, Works from the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, August 7-September 7, 1981”

George Bellows

#Inspiring Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Art Quotes

“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”
“I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.”
“I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment. Also, roughly around the time we were doing this fact-checking. And I never really understood why people think what nonfiction's job is to give them information as opposed to something else.”
“It's too hot for me to bother with wearing my hair down in the summer. I'd rather pin it up in braids, or throw it in a top knot so I don't have to think about it the rest of the day.”
“Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.”
“I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.”
“I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.”
“Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.”

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