Frederick Varley quotes

Frederick Varley quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Artist awake or be forever fallen.”
-- Frederick Varley

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“I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.”
-- Frederick Varley

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“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”
“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”
“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”
“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”
“In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.”
“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”
“If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
“I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.”

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