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Eugène Delacroix - January 14, 1856
The Journal of Eugène Delacroix, trans. Walter Pach
Advice from Agnes Martin. She believed that spiritual inspiration and not intellect created great work. See her exhibition at Tate Modern until 11 October 2015.
Eddie Redmayne, on Stephen Hawking
"What inspires me is feeling. I’m talking about a sense of excitement, of awe and wonder. As a child, you have a kind of openness." —Jeff Koons to Art in America.
Jeff Koons (b. 1955), Bear and Policeman, 1988. Polychromed wood; 85 × 43 × 37 in. (215.9 × 109.2 × 94 cm). Artist’s proof. Collection of Jeffrey Deitch. © Jeff Koons
“We were at Argenteuil one Sunday, watching the white barques ply the Seine…Some women were bathing. Manet’s eye was fixed on the flesh of the women leaving the water. ‘It seems,’ he said to me, ‘that I must do a nude. All right, I’m going to do them a nude. When we were at the studio, I copied Giorgione’s women, the women with the musicians. That’s a dark picture. The background has retreated. I want to do it over, and do it in the transparency of the atmosphere, with figures like those that we see over there. I’ll take a beating, but let them say what they want.’”
– Antonin Proust, Édouard Manet Souvenirs
David Smith
Interview, March 1960, in David Sylvester, Interviews with American Artists.
