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Quotes by Brett Whiteley - (16 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 Journey category:

The quest is the transmutation of Self. (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 Painting category:

A painting is a record of the extremely intensified moments of life - where more than one space, two senses of time, more than the law even seems at work, where the emotional forces seem to be propelling one to a dangerous limit, where reason and explanations become too enfeebled or too speeded-up to matter. (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)

Brett Whiteley - From the Travel 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)