From the beloved
 

Odna iz moih liubimyh tsitat:

People took up art when stopped doing magic. When the shaman beats his drum, but it does not go to the lower world to catch the spirits, he becomes a musician. When the shaman cast spells, and it does not heal the audience, he stanovitsia writer. When the shaman paints a bull pierced with an arrow, and it does not lead to the death of this animal, he becomes an artist.

Reshil prodolzit 'temu, budu inogda dobavliat'.


"You are the bread kypil?
- Ny as you say ...
- Speak up, as it is.
- There is no way. This nyzhno drink

But the idea made me think:
Many of my colleagues zaboyalis because it looked to the Soviet era. I know that they both believe me it is not hidden. A frightened artist - this polhudozhnika. A polhudozhnika not a man capable of creating art. (c)

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor


Naibol'shaia opasnost 'dlia bol'shinstva iz nas, ne to, chto my metim slishkom vysoko, i mozem ne dostich' tseli, no to, chto ona ustanavlivaetsia slishkom nizko, i my ee dostigaem.

Svobodnyi smyslovoi perevod 2009, Dr Alexander L. Grigoriev, Sovremennyi Menedzer Ikusstv, Galerist, Expert po Rynku Iskusstv.

The cell was empty, in the usual plate read:
"rhesus monkeys. But in the announcement, a hastily written and pinned to the plywood,
stated: "who lived here from the monkey blind senseless brutality
one of the visitors. Evil man sypnul tobacco into the eyes of rhesus monkeys. " (c)

AlexanderG, in fact, people took up the art long before they began to engage in magic. In any textbook on aesthetics is the section "Prehistoric Art"

J. P. Morgan 's favorite saying:

"A man always has two reasons for the things he does: a good reason-and the real reason."

Chelovek vsegda imeet dve prichiny dlia togo, chto on delaet: horoshuiu (pravil'nuiu) i nastoiaschuiu.

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Ot LCR: One man said: "You can laugh at all, but not all."

Zamechatel'no, a kto avtor?

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A eto, prosto veselo:

Ukrainian genetics crossed a pig with a snake.
Now, these pigs several times a year, dropping fat.

Novyi al'bom
 

Zagruzil novyi al'bom Mily Grigoriev. Nazyvaetsia "Antologiia". Vse kartiny kruglye 30 sm v diametre. Mixed media on board, canvas hessian.

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Libimoe vyrazenie Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

"There is no solution because there is no problem"

Resheniia ne suschestvuet, potomu chto net problemy.

What but the pioneering thought. This will be the collapse of the art business. And as it is not possible to eliminate that Komsomol idealism.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Snachala oni ne zamechaiut tebia, potom oni smeiutsia nad toboi, potom oni boriutsia s toboi, potom ty pobedil.

"Of the 700-odd proved originals by Corot. 8,000 are to be found in America alone"

Eric Hebborn, "Confessions of a Master Forger", 1997

Is 700 s nebol'shim podtverzdionnyh originalov Koro, 8,000 nahodiatsia v Amerike .:)

Hokusai
 

S shestiletnego vozrasta ia zanimalsia kopirovaniem form i veschei, i gde to s 50, moi kartiny byli chasto opublikovany, no do 70, ia ne narisoval nichego dostoinogo vnimaniia. V 73 goda, ia byl vrode by sposoben izobrazit 'rasteniia i derev'ia, i formu ptits, zivotnyh, nasekomyh i ryb. Poetomu, kogda ia dostignu 80, ia nadeius' sdelat 'suschestvennyi progress, ik 90 uvidet' fundamental'nye kachestva veschei, chto by k 100 ia dostig "divine state" sostoia nia prosvetleniia v moiom iskusstve, ak 110, kazdaia tochka i kazdyi shtrih budut, kak zivye.

Dozil on do sta let, i umiraia skazal: "eschio 5 let, i ia mog by stat 'nastoiaschim hudoznikom".

If this is about our age and condition of the creative personality in it, the development of creative thought. That venture to remark that it is now unfortunately a swamp. Communists controlled the content, the plot, but they are less interfered with professional looking artist. It was totalitarian, but often with talent. Now the artist gave some of the people. We do not have the artistic and spiritual quest, you simply become a fashion designer and fit into the interior.

I agree.
90-e, for me, were cheerful, pokreativnee ...
"Zero" nothing special not go down in history.

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According to the Federal State Statistics Service, life expectancy in Russia in 2008 amounted to 67,9 years (61.8 for men and 74.2 for women).

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Normal'nyi chelovek podstraivaet sebia pod mir; nenormal'nyi podstraivaet mir pod sebia. Poetomu ves' progress zavisit ot nenormal'nyh liudei".