Sam Francis quotes
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“Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.”
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“The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.”
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“An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.”
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“Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.”
-- Sam FrancisSource : Galerie Smith-Anderson, Sam Francis (1975*). “Sam Francis: black and white lithographs, 1963-1975”
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“Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.”
-- Sam Francis
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.”
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