"I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes."

-- Jean Helion

#Art Quotes #Eye Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors.”

Source : Johannes Itten (1961). “Kunst der Farbe”, Reinhold Pub. Corp
“You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.”
“You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning”
“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”
“If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.”

Source : 1945 'Trans Canada'.
“What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence...”
“Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.”

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