"The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it."

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Source : Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

Albert Pinkham Ryder

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“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
“If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.”
“The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a privilege denied to everyone else, even including nonprofit organizations? None! My contention is that with the churches exempted from property taxation, you and I have to pay that much more in taxes to make up for what they're not contributing.”
“I believe God was in Christ, not will be, perhaps, maybe if we're good boys and girls, it's over, it's done, we are one people, race is a violation, nations are a violation...”
“I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.”
“Meditation is listening to the divine within”
“I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.”
“The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.”

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