Guido Molinari Quotes

#1. Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

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#2. Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

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#3. It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

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#4. The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

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#5. I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art.

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#6. Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time ... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.

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#7. My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

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#8. With monochrome painting ... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

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#9. I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

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#10. In a way, the blank canvas ... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

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#11. Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

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