Squeak Carnwath quotes
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“Painting is an investigation of being.”
-- Squeak CarnwathSource : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
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“Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.”
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“Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.”
-- Squeak CarnwathSource : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
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“When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.”
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“It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.”
-- Squeak CarnwathSource : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
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“Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.”
-- Squeak CarnwathSource : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
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“The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.”
-- Squeak CarnwathSource : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
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“I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.”
Source : Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr
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“The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation”
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“A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.”
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“Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.”
Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.124, Penguin
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“Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.”
Source : Lily King (2014). “Euphoria”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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