Beverly Pepper quotes
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“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.”
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“I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.”
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“I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing...”
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“I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.”
-- Beverly Pepper -
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“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.”
-- Beverly Pepper -
“It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.”
-- Beverly Pepper
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“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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