Vija Celmins quotes
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“Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.”
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“There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.”
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“I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.”
-- Vija Celmins
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“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”
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“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”
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Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2008). “Carmilla: A Tragic Love Story”, p.38, Dusty White
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