"My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being."

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Source : Yaacov Agam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1980). “Homage to Yaacov Agam: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, 1980”, Book Sales

Yaacov Agam

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“The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.”
“Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.”
“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.”
“It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.”
“I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.”

Source : Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”
“I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.”

Source : "Meet La Belle Anglaise" By Anna Pursglove, Evening Standard, December 15, 2000.
“In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.”

Source : Statement on the July 1943 bombings of Hamburg. "The Valour and the Horror: The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War". Book by Merrily Weisbord and ‎Merilyn Simonds Mohr, p. 107, 1991.
“The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.”

Source : Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Synthesis of Yoga: Art of living”, p.55, editionNEXT.com

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