Reviews : Quotations
Perception
“The internal movement of the human body mirrors the topography of the world.”
Fabienne Verdier
“Learn to see.
Learn to decipher the world, to recognise the deepest truth in form.”
Yacoov Agam
“Like Joseph Beuys, I seek to forge anew the ties between humankind and the world’s secret side.”
Giorgio Griffa
La Croix 28 June 2021
“All landscapes are within me. And there is room for everything.”
Etty Hillesum
1941-1943
“Our eyes don’t read letters one after the other, nor even words one after the other, nor even lines, one after the other. They proceed in jumps and starts, fixating on one thing then another, exploring the full breadth of text, all at once, with opiniated redundance in an unceasing back-and-forth, interspersed with imperceptible breaks, as if to discover what we are seeking, our eyes need to scan the page in a state of intense agitation, not steadily like a TV receiver (as the term scan might imply), but randomly, in disorderly, repetitive fashion.”
Georges Perec
Published in 1976 in the magazine Esprit, then again in Penser/Classer
Colour
Colour, above all and perhaps even more than drawing, is a liberation.
Henri Matisse
“All that surrounds us is nothing but colour. We are colour. Colour is life. Long live colour, long live painting.”
Cheri Samba
Colours of Africa Exhibition, July 2021
Approach
“… the work of a man is nothing but a long journey through art, to find those two or three simple images that his heart first opened up to.”
Albert Camus
Preface to “The Wrong Side and the Right Side”
“All art is a mirror in which we grasp and recognise something in ourselves.”
Alain
“We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.”
Antonia Susan Byatt
Abstraction
“Abstraction for Schlemmer is not the abolition of figures rather the reduction of figure to structures, their fundamental principle.”
Manuel Jover
for Connaissance des arts
Exhibition of Schlemmer’s work at the Centre Pompidou
Decembre 2016
“Abstract art is only important as an endless rhythm in which the ancient past and the far future meet.”
Sonia Delaunay
