Keali'i Reichel quotes

“If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.”
-- Keali'i Reichel

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“If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.”
-- Keali'i Reichel

#Hawaii Quotes #Language Quotes #Paint Quotes

“The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!”

“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”

“I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.”

Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

“I paint with my back to the world”

Source : Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

“But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.”

“If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.”

“Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?”

“I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.”

“I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.”

“I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.”