Hilma af Klint quotes

Hilma af Klint quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.”
-- Hilma af Klint

#Ideas Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Brushes Quotes

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”
“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”
“The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.”
“The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.”
“When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.”
“If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.”
“My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.”
“Grain is the brush stroke of photography.”
“No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on”

Source : Song: Crooked Smile, Album: Born Sinner, 2013

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