Hans Hartung quotes

“One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change...”
-- Hans Hartung

Source : Hans Hartung, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1975). “Hans Hartung: Paintings, 1971-1975 : [exhibition], October 16, 1975-January 4, 1976 : [catalogue].”, p.25, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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“Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.”
-- Hans Hartung

Source : Hans Hartung, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1975). “Hans Hartung: Paintings, 1971-1975 : [exhibition], October 16, 1975-January 4, 1976 : [catalogue].”, p.25, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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“The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.”
-- Hans Hartung

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“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”

“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”

“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”

Source : Tahafut at-tahafut (ca. 1180)

“Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.”

“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

Source : Alain Badiou (2005). “Metapolitics”, p.7, Verso

“There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.”

“To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.”

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

Source : Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”