"Art opens the fishiest eye . . ."

-- Sheridan Hay

#Art Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Painting is more important than art.”
“It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world.Â To reach out is to risk.Â There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self”
“Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear”
“Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.”

Source : Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”
“I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.”
“To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.”
“Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.”
“When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.”

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