"the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely."

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Source : Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition”, Not Avail

Arnulf Rainer

#Incessant Quotes #Motifs Quotes

“I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities,”
“I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.”
“I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.”
“Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.”
“Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”
“I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.”
“Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.”

Source : William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.22

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