#art philosophy
“An artist has to be the perfect contradiction at all times…You have to be just insane enough to want to do something that is so punishing and so difficult. But at the same time it takes a very sane person to execute it all.”
pictured: “Maybe She’s Born With It” (2015)
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From a conversation between Ernest Guiraud and Debussy, Debussy: Volume 1, 1862-1902: His Life and Mind (by Edward Lockspeiser)
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What is the use of art? The answer to this question resides in a formula: “art is a prayer.”
— Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews, edited by John Gianvito
Therein lies the enormous aid the work of art brings to the life of the one who must make it,—: that it is his epitome; the knot in the rosary at which his life recites a prayer, the ever-returning proof to himself of his unity and genuineness, which presents itself only to him while appearing anonymously to the outside, nameless, existing merely as necessity, as reality, as being—
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne
Art is a wound turned into light.
— Georges Braque
