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“If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.”
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“I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.”
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“I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.”
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“The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.”
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“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.”
Source : Susan Straight (2008). “A Million Nightingales”, p.285, Anchor
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“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”
Source : Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
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“The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.”
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“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.”
