"I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values."

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Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 24), 2004.

Antoni Tapies

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“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

Source : "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.
“For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.”
“Only those things the heart believes are true.”

Source : Vincent Starrett (2016). “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [Revised Edition]”, p.67, Pickle Partners Publishing
“If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2016). “Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 1: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor”, p.45, MIRA
“It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.”
“I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.”
“He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.”
“Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.”

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