a few art comments (quotes)

["Oscar Bearinger" <oscarbear@zzzzzzzzzzzz>]

dear fellow rockhounds
a few comments I found interesting...thought you might as well.
(please note:  stone may be the interest of old women too :o)! )
Oscar

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"When I have arranged a bouquet for the purpose of painting it, I
always turn it round and paint the side I didn't plan."
     Renoir (to Matisse)
     in Threads of Time (recollections), Peter Brook, p113.

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"To a great extent the sculpture of Brancusi is also a reflection
about sculpture; and at the same time a purely sculptural method of
thinking the world, translated into living forms and lines of force."

     Eugene Ionesco
     Notes and Counter Notes,  p272.

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'Sculpture may be anything and will be valued for its intrinsic
sculptural qualities. However, it seems to me that the natural mediums
of wood and stone, alive before man was, have the greater capacity to
comfort us with the reality of our being. They are  as familiar as the
earth, a matter of sensibility. In our times we think to control
nature, only to find that in the end it escapes us. I for one return
recurrently to the earth in my search for the meaning of sculpture --
to escape fragmentation with a new synthesis, within the sculpture and
related to spaces. I believe in the activity of stone, actual or
illusory, and in gravity as a vital element. Sculpture is the
definition of form in space, visible to the mobile spectator as
participant. Sculptures move because we move. They say in Japan that
the end interest of old men is stone--just stone, natural stone,
ready-made sculptures for the eyes of connoisseurs. This is not quite
correct; it is the point of view that sanctifies; it is selection and
place

                              Isamu Noguchi