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Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz

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AKA Magdalena Abakanowicz

Birthday June 20, 1930

Birthplace Falenty, Poland

Death April 20, 2017

Educated At Academy Of Fine Arts

Nationality Poland

Occupations Textile Artist, Athletics Competitor, Sculptor, University Teacher

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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

— Magdalena Abakanowicz, Five Walking Figures

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Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

— Elaine de Kooning, Oral history interview with Elaine de Kooning, 1981 August 27

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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

— Pablo Picasso, via Wikiquote

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First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

— Francisco Goya, Unknown

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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

— Robert Rauschenberg, Rauschenberg, art and life

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When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.

— George Bernard Shaw, Wikiquote.org: George Bernard Shaw

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The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

— Joan Miro, via Pinterest

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

— Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman

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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

— Max Planck, Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People

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Painting and writing are solitary arts.

— Conrad Hall, Conrad Hall Quotes

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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

— Man Ray, Man Ray: Writings on Art

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.

— Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part II, Walking the Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch Land

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Art is a line around your thoughts.

— Gustav Klimt, via Tumblr

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To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko, via Wikiquote

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The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso, Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters

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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

— John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

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Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Notebooks

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There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch

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The difference between life and art is art is more bearable.

— Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, American Author

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Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.

— Dorothea Tanning, Salon Interview Surrealist Dorothea Tanning

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Art is infinite. It has no beginning and no end.

— Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes

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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

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Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.

— Lindsey Adler, Instagram Poet Rupi Kaur Seems Utterly Uninterested In Reading Books

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Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

— Paul Gauguin, via GoodReads

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