Brett Whiteley Quotes - click name for biography
· When I'm not fidgeting with infinity, I'm just fidgeting.
- Brett Whiteley
· I love the stoniness and creaminess, that wonderful soiled magnolia feeling. Paris is so sensual, beautiful, flirtatious, mischievous, arrogant, orderly, so civilised. They call Paris a whore because she seduces you on every corner, and every street I turned, I could see another picture.
- Brett Whiteley
· 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
· Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia.
- Brett Whiteley
· The most fundamental reason one paints is in order to see.
- Brett Whiteley
· Never trust an art dealer who'll sit in a room for more than ten minutes with a crooked picture.
- Brett Whiteley
· I can't stand mindless purity - I have soaked myself in scepticism and am by nature magnetised to bitterness.
- Brett Whiteley
· Everyone reaches a point in their life where they must either change or cease.
- Brett Whiteley
· 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
· Art is the thrilling spark that beats death - thats all.
- Brett Whiteley
· 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
· 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 existense.
- Brett Whiteley
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