“I am well aware that a painting must inevitably be a bizarre, incomprehensible thing.”
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
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“The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.”
7th Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland (10 August 1971)
1970s
“I am well aware that in theological and democratic terms I am, no more than "God's silly vassal"”
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
In 'Possibilities', Vol. 1, no 1, winter 1947-48, p. 79; as quoted in Jackson Pollock (1983) by Elizabeth Frank, p. 68
1940's
Letter to her husband George P. Putnam, on the eve of her last flight
Last Flight (1937)
“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”
Introduction (p. 7)
The Dragons of Eden (1977)
Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Source: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 441
On his unfinished work Hérodiade, in a letter to Henri Cazalis (30 October 1864); Oeuvres Complètes (1945) edited by Mondor & Jean-Aubry, p. 307, as translated in Mallarmé : The Poet and his Circle ([1999] 2005) by Rosemary Lloyd, p. 48.
Observations
Context: I have finally begun my Herodiade. With terror, for I am inventing a language that must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint, not the thing, but the effect it produces. … the line of poetry in such a case should be composed not of words, but of intentions, and all the words should fade away before the sensation..
Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL (20 January, 1946)
Quoted in Brian Sherwin, "Art Space Talk: James Rosenquist," http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/04/art-space-talk-james-rosenquist.html myartspace.com (2008-04-04)