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Aphorisms corner
At every moment, an aphorism about art, beauty, the “visible”. These maxims and thoughts from the best writers or artists illustrate the spirit of the Imaginary Museum of Patagonia.
Hans HartungScribbling, scratching, acting on the canvas, and painting seem to me to be human activities that are as immediate, spontaneous and simple as the singing, dancing or playing of an animal, which runs, mews or snorts.
The 4 founding aphorisms
DelacroixWhen painters will have lost their science and the love of their tools, futile theories will appear. Unable to write their thoughts with forms and colours, they will formulate them with words and the writers will win over them. I am not talking about the true poet… but about the school supervisor who wants to explain a verse from Virgile.
AlainIn each work of art, the thought comes from the work; a work of art never comes from a thought.
Henri Frédéric AmielThe beautiful is superior to the sublime since it is permanent and is not satisfactory ; when the sublime is relative, transitory and violent.
Georges BraqueArt is a wound which becomes light.