"When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while."

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Source : Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

Arshile Gorky

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.”
“I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr
“The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.”
“In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.”

Source : Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
“You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.”
“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.”

Source : John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics
“It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be.”

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