"I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years."

-- David Salle

#Art Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Years Quotes

“The living can assist the imagination of the dead...”
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”

Source : Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay (1978). “The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay”, Viking Adult
“God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.”
“A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.”

Source : Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'”
“Bacon improved things dramatically.”
“There's a Hidden Valley ranch party in my mouth.”
“Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.”

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