"My paintings are wiser than I am."

-- Gerhard Richter

#Painting Quotes #Wiser Quotes

“Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.”

Source : James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223
“And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?”
“I owe everything to golf. Where else could a guy with an IQ like mine make this much money?”
“Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.”

Source : Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L
“I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)”
“By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.”
“Easy street is a blind alley.”
“Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.”

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