Marjorie Benton Cooke quotes
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“until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.”
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“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”
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“The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.”
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“creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.”
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“I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.”
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“The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.”
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“Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.”
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press
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“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press
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