"What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Agnes Denes

#Landscape Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Canvas Quotes

“If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.”
“For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of the German constitution, the right to asylum, applies. Nobody is questioning that. Irrespective of that, there is immigration that must be regulated, to bring skilled personnel to Germany, for example. We have to establish criteria for that. Their affiliation with the Christian-Western culture should be one of them.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.”

Source : "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.
“I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.”
“But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.”
“The mists of nostalgia color memory.”
“I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.”
“The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.”

Source : "The Playwright as Historian". Sunday Times Magazine, November 26, 1978.

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