"Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask."

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Robert Motherwell

#Art Quotes #Matter Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”

Source : Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”
“... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?”
“Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are”
“Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.”
“Failure was a key element to my lifeâ€™s journey.”
“Thereâ€™s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that itâ€™s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.”
“The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.”

Source : "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.
“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”

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