“The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
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“The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure.”
As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251
Context: The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
Gorky's quote refers to the heavy swift in modern art because of the appearance of Cubism
1942 - 1948
Source: 'Camouflage', 1942; an announcement for a teaching program [set up by Gorky and the director of the Grand Central School of Art, Edmund Greasen]
“He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.”
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Yves Klein, catalogue of exhibition in the Jewish Museum, New York 1967, p. 18
from posthumous publications
As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251
Source: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“He who 'makes' real things is he who knows the secret of making them.”
The Forge and the Crucible (1956).
Context: In virtue of this, the artisan is a connoisseur of secrets, a magician; thus all crafts include some kind off initiation and are handed down by an occult tradition. He who 'makes' real things is he who knows the secret of making them.