"The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer."

-- Leland Bell

#Artist Quotes #Reality Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.”
“The past isn't going to get you to your goal.”
“Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of manâ€”the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factoriesâ€”will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing
“It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.”
“I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.”
“Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.”
“The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter”

Source : Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
“What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not think that you are a sinner, that you are a degraded person. If you think that you are a sinner, it means you are meditating on sin! When sin has become the object of your meditation, you will become a sinner, because a person becomes just like the object of his or her ideation. We become the object of our meditation.”

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