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| | Art is an essence, a center. I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
—Eva Hesse |
| | Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in the gap between the two.
—Robert Rauschenberg |
| | An ethic of paying attention develops through hard experience.
—Matthew Crawford |
| | The divide is not between between the leisured and the workers but between those who are interested in the world and those who merely subsist, worrying or yawning.
—A.S. Byatt |
| | You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.
—Rainer Maria Rilke |
| | Art requires an attribute closer to blindness than to inspiration—the refusal to give up when the odds predict defeat, again.
—Kathryn Harrison
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| | The voyage of discovery is not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust |
| | I hate to be told something by anybody unless I have a feeling how it could be that way. This made me, inevitably, an epistemologist.
—Stephan Toulmin |
| | Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett |
| | I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
—Robert Rauschenberg |
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