the unique, revolutionary connection of art and life (22 May 2016)

Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath, 1893  


I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

- Mary Cassatt

Paul Cezanne,  Still Life with Pomegranate and Pears, 1890

Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn't believe that everyone should see alike.

- Mary Cassatt

I am independent! I can live and I love to work.

- Mary Cassatt

Atelier Paul Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence

I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

- Mary Cassatt

Jean Tinguely,  Klamauk (Racket),  1979

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

- Jean Tinguely

 Jean Tinguely

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely