"Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality."

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Source : Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs”, Lund Humphries Publishers

Ben Nicholson

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #Abandoned Quotes

“Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.”
“When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.”

Source : Eddie Cantor (1959). “The way I see it”
“I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.”
“When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.”
“We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.”
“We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.”
“Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.”

Source : Ned Herrmann (1989). “The Creative Brain”, Ned Herrmann Group
“Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.”

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