"The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore."

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Source : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

Squeak Carnwath

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“The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.”
“Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.”
“In my years of working in theatre and TV I've learnt that my main skill is not the instrumental playing but the idea of what to play and my interest for so many kinds of music. Often people ask me to contribute to projects when they don't stay in just one genre. I feel more like a composer who just has to play his own things.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Be true to thine own self.”
“A right delayed is a right denied.”
“I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.”
“I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.”
“It's clear that North took some original steps in that direction, but Hall probably had the most complete approach and should get the most credit. But for Hall, unfortunately, the data are all impressionistic - what people said. None of his machinery survived. His patents were all lost in the Patent Office fire.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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