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Brett Whiteley Art Quotes - (13 quotes)

Brett Whiteley - From the Art category:

Art is the thrilling spark that beats death – that's all. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Beauty category:

I am interested in beauty which can best be described as being on time for the appointment. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Belief category:

I can't stand mindless purity - I have soaked myself in skepticism and am by nature magnetized to bitterness. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Change category:

Everyone reaches a point in their life where they must either change or cease. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Dealers category:

Never trust an art dealer who'll sit in a room for more than ten minutes with a crooked picture. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Drawing category:

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace or probing authoritatively the unknown. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Eccentricity category:

I was intrigued and enormously drawn to extremism by people who had blown their lives or who had taken their lives outside the normal conventions of society. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Happiness category:

Everything is such a sort of stoned state... I walk around with a bunch of violets in my hand and a sledgehammer and a grain of sand in my head. I am happy. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Meaning category:

The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe the centre of the meaning of existence. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Seeing category:

The most fundamental reason one paints is in order to see. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Shock category:

Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Subject category:

I love the stoniness and creaminess, that wonderful soiled magnolia feeling. Paris is so sensual, beautiful, flirtatious, mischievous, arrogant, orderly, so civilized. They call Paris a whore because she seduces you on every corner, and every street I turned, I could see another picture. (Brett Whiteley)

Brett Whiteley - From the Time category:

When I'm not fidgeting with infinity, I'm just fidgeting. (Brett Whiteley)

Editor: Robert Genn

Consultants: Sara Genn, Richard Thompson
Technical Support and Presentation: Andrew Niculescu

Associate Editors:
Scott Altman, Bonnie Austin, Karen Austin, Michele Becker, Joe Blodgett, Norman Brown, Alyce Bryson, Leanne Cadden, Penny Duane, Max Elliot, Derek Franklin, Mardy Grothe, Harry Hartley, Sue Holland, Shawn Jackson, Sue Legault, Tammy McManus, Eric Mewhinney, Bruce Miller, Laura Parrish, Andrea Pratt, Dan Roberts, Shirley Rochon, Gilbert Roy, John Sherlock, Victor Wong,

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