Leonor Fini quotes
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“I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.”
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“A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.”
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“I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.”
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“Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.”
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“Marriage never appealed to me, I have never lived with one person. Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked”
-- Leonor Fini
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Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
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“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
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“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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