The making of superior art is arduous, usually.
(Clement Greenberg, Modernism and Postmodernism, Late Writings, p32)
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Quote of the Week
The other – the others!
Millions of them are left to sink. They are asphixiated, starved, tortured, reduced to silence. Yet, at great risk, a few men and women refuse to bow down in front of hypocrisy, pseudo-truths, inflated authority. Loud or silent, their testimony sends endless echoes around the world.
(Dominique de Menil, Statement at the first Rothko Chapel Awards for Commitment to Truth and Freedom, 1981)
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We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
(Dave Eggars, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
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It is most often by way of errors, false starts, overrun objectives, and much groping and fumbling in general that great and original art arrives.
(Clement Greenberg, Affirmations and Refusals, p277)
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Even when I was young, I said to myself that what is meant to be mine will come to me. I don’t have to go and look for it, just be attentive.
If there is any wisdom in life, it is knowing how to wait.
(José Saramago)
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Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.
( WB Yeats)
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A person caught in a philosophical confusion is like a man in a room who wants to get out but doesn’t know how. He tries the window but it is too high. He tries the chimney but it is too narrow. And if he would only turn around he would see that the door has been open all the time!
…the problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
(Wittgenstein, Investigations §109)
Materials library
Did you know we have a collection of materials samples from German supplier Materialworks? More information is available here.
Our Materialworks samples boxes are available at the library service desk for reference purposes. The categories of materials which we currently hold are:
- Translucency
- Wire Mesh
- Sandwich
- Non-woven felts
- Technical textiles
- Flooring
- Metocene
Quote of the Week
Whenever [Brancusi] sensed in us apprehension or distress about our painting, he would bolster our spirits. “Take the bull by the horns, press on, never give up!” Sometimes he would elaborate: “You can’t get to the real things if you don’t repudiate the I… The more you run after fame, the more it will escape you. Turn your back on it, and you’ll be free to make the works that matter.”
(Natalie Dumitresco and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi)
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Quality… is what makes art irreplaceable. Quality is constituted by the pleasure, joy, exhilaration, delight, elation, affect, the satisfaction gotten from art. Everything that is in art; the content, the import, the tenor, the drift, the meaning, the significance… -all these things are carried by quality.
(Clement Greenberg, Homemade Esthetics, p106)
