Gyorgy Kepes quotes
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“Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.”
-- Gyorgy KepesSource : Gyorgy Kepes (1965). “Education of Vision”, New York : G. Braziller
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“Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.”
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“The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.”
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“The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.”
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“Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.”
-- Gyorgy KepesSource : Gyorgy Kepes (1995). “Language of Vision”, p.46, Courier Corporation
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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”
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“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
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“Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.”
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“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
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“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”
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