"One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change..."

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Source : Hans Hartung, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1975). “Hans Hartung: Paintings, 1971-1975 : [exhibition], October 16, 1975-January 4, 1976 : [catalogue].”, p.25, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hans Hartung

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“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”
“Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.”
“Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.”

Source : Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
“Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.”
“Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.”
“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”
“The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.”

Source : Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”
“In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.”

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