"Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them."

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Source : "Years of Struggle 1902-14' Autobiography Berlin" by Emil Nolde, 1934.

Emil Nolde

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“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.”
“I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.”
“Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant--the waves of time leave washed up behind themselves only dry memories of a closed & petrified past--imperfect memory, itself already dying & autumnal. And every instant also gives birth to a world--despite the cavillings of philosophers & scientists whose bodies have grown numb--a present in which all impossibilities are renewed, where regret & premonition fade to nothing in one presential hologrammatical psychomantric gesture.”

Source : Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.34, Autonomedia
“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”

Source : Ralph Venning (1652). “Mysteries and revelations: Or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture”
“Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.”
“It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.48, Vanderbilt University Press
“I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.”

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