Dore Ashton quotes
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“Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.”
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“It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.”
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“art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.”
-- Dore AshtonSource : Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press
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“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
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“Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!”
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