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Louise Bourgeois in 1975 wearing her latex sculpture Avenza. Photo: Mark Setteducati, © The Easton Foundation
"Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole"
L.B.
A text from Generall Historie of Plantes by John Gerard, a drawing by John Ruskin
“The Violets called the blacke or purple violets, or March Violets of the garden, have a great prerogative about others, not only because the mind conceiveth a certain pleasure and recreation by smelling and handling those most oderiferous floures, but also for that very many by these violets receive ornament and comely grace; (…) and the recreation of the minde which is taken hereby cannot be but very good and honest; for they admonish and stirre up a man to that which is comely and honest; for floures thorugh their beauty, variety of colour, and exquisit forme, do bring to a liberall and gentle manly minde, the remembrance of honestie, comlinesse, and all kindes of vertues.”
J.G.
Rainer Maria Rilke. Imagno/Getty
"Works of art are born of those who confront danger, who go to the limit of an experience, to a point beyond which no human can go. The farther one ventures, the more distinctive, the more personal, the more unique life becomes." R.M.R.
Jorge Luis Borges, Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Credit: Ferdinando Scianna/Magnum Photos.
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god”
Werner Heisenberg participating in the 1969 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Photo: LNLM/Werner Stuhler.
“The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.”
W.H.
Charles Mingus, London, 1951 by Robert Frank
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity”
C.M.
El Muro (1969), Manolo Millares.
“I am not afraid to say that much of what I do escapes my understanding. And I am not afraid of this because, in all truth, I do not feel a need to understand everything I paint […] I go about my work with total freedom, in a deliciously strange, disconcerting world; I make different textures collide; I populate the infinite spaces and torture them with a dynamic entanglement of strings”
M.M.
Aki Kaurismäki on the set of his own “Lights in the Dusk”. Credits: Strand Releasing.
“The problem is, I have seen all the other films. All the serious films ever made I have seen, more or less. They are so good... and I am so bad. Very early in my so-called career, I knew I would never make a masterpiece. So I decided to make lots of decent films”
A.K.
Caja metafísica por conjunción de dos triedros, Jorge Oteiza, 1958
“One who advances in creating something new, does it like a rower, moving forward but paddling backwards, looking back, towards the past, towards that existing, to be able to reinvent his keys”
[roughly translated, ed.]
J.O.
William Faulkner, photographed in Oxford by Martin J. Dain, in the 1960s
“...Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools...”
W.F.
Alberto Burri, Rosso combustione plastica, 1957
“Painting is freedom attained, constantly consolidated, defended cautiosly in order to derive the strenght to paint more”
[roughly translated, ed.]
A.B.
Per Kirkeby, Fram, 1982. Oil on canvas
“Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.. ..is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you’re doing a so-called landscape painting”
P.K.
Toru Takemitsu by photographer Akira Kinoshita, 1976
“I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe...”
T.T.
L'église du Vieux Saint-Sauveur, John Ruskin, 1848.
“There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests", and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives, and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the rest? See him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. But be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the "rests". They are not to be slurred over nor to be omitted, nor to destroy the melody, nor to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear”
J.R.
Pina Baush - Café Müller
“I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them”
P.B.
I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys, 1974
“To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom”
J.B.
The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman, 1957
“The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage”
I.B.