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A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise, i. e., cannot do something else.
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
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It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
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The purest mobile form, the cosmic one... is only created through the liquidation of gravity....
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A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.
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When intuition joins exact research, the progress of understanding will be accelerated astoundingly.
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Be winged arrows, aiming at fulfillment and goal, even though you will tire without having reached the mark.
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Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
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It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being...
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
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An active line on a walk, moving freely without a goal. A walk for walk's sake. The agent is a point that shifts position.
On Drawing
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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Colour possesses me. It will always possess me. That is the meaning of this happy hour: colour and I are one. I am a painter.
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Color possesses me—I don't have to pursue it.... That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
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Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
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By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.
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For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind
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He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
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All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either...
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The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
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In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
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I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
December 18, 1879
Died:
June 29, 1940
(aged 60)
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