"While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell."

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Source : "The autobiographical pact: otherness and redemption in four French avant-garde artists". Book by Cosana Maria Eram, p. 20, 2010.

Hans Arp

#Art Quotes #Distance Quotes #Gun Quotes

“The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.”
“While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress...It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent State, or a Conquered Country.”
“And you can look up just about anything, even dirty pictures. Every now and again, the dirtiest pictures you ever saw would pop up on the screen. Imagine!”
“Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.”
“If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.”
“Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay”
“I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.”
“I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.”

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