"The texture of experience is prior to everything else."

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Source : "Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works". Book by David Anfam, p. 150, 1990.

Willem de Kooning

#Texture Quotes

“Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.”
“The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.”
“We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?”
“Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.”
“We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.”
“All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

Source : Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”
“What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.”
“Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.”

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