“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”
Source: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 483
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AF, 73; p. 161
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
“I always wanted to have the courage to do totally crazy, impossible, and also wrong things.”
Quote of Isa Genzken, 1994; as cited on the website of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/isa-genzken#sthash.9tR3JC9l.dpuf: exhibition Isa Genzken: Mach dich Hübsch! 11-2015 - 03-2016.
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Still Crazy After All These Years
Song lyrics, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)
Variant: That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there."
"Which one is me?" I asked.
"The little deformed one," Zoe suggested.
"Oh, shut up.
Source: The Titan's Curse
Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague (February 2006) http://web.archive.org/web/20070506185456/http://music.barnesandnoble.com/features/interview.asp?NID=1011932&z=y.
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Context: And thereupon the Lord gave Satan the power to destroy the property and children of Job. In a little while these high contracting parties met again; and the Lord seemed somewhat elated with his success, and called again the attention of Satan to the sinlessness of Job. Satan then told him to touch his body and he would curse him. And thereupon power was given to Satan over the body of Job, and he covered his body with boils. Yet in all this, Job did not sin with his lips. This book seems to have been written to show the excellence of patience, and to prove that at last God will reward all who will bear the afflictions of heaven with fortitude and without complaint. The sons and daughters of Job had been slain, and then the Lord, in order to reward Job, gave him other children, other sons and other daughters—not the same ones he had lost; but others. And this, according to the writer, made ample amends. Is that the idea we now have of love? If I have a child, no matter how deformed that child may be, and if it dies, nobody can make the loss to me good by bringing a more beautiful child. I want the one I loved and the one I lost.
As quoted in "To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han on watching her book become a phenomenon" in Vox (4 June 2019) https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/4/18648808/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-jenny-han-interview