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« You are always looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise nor help you, no one. » « A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. » « Allow your judgments their own silence, their undisturbed development, because, like all progress, it has to come from deeply within and cannot be forced or hastened. » « Creation is like procreation. Everything is gestation and then giving birth. » « Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lays before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. » « Try to love the questions themselves without searching for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to understand them. Live your questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. » « Don't be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law » « And those who live the mystery falsely and badly lose it only for themselves and nevertheless pass it on like a sealed letter, without knowing it. » « Love your solitude and try to accept the pain it causes to you. If your loved ones seem far away, its just a space growing inside of you. » « Be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them, don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend… When you see them, love life in a form that is not your own. » « Now I am giving you this copy because I know that it is important to rediscover a work of your own in someone else's handwriting. Read the poem as if it is unknown to you and you will feel in your innermost being how very much it is your own. » « We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us. Nothing strong is easy and to love is difficult. » « The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadness, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. » « It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own (...) fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. » « Just as people for a long time had a wrong idea about the sun's motion, they are even now wrong about the motion of what is to come. The future stands still, but we move in infinite space. » « We must accept our life as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within. » « How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that are transformed into princesses at the last moment? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. » « Why do you want to exclude worry and suffering of your life? Because it's through them that we can transform ourselves. If sickness is needed to free yourself from exterior things, you have to help sickness because you grow through it. » « You must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has to watch over himself. » RAINER MARIA RILKE |
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Luc Hautbout is the contemporary figurative artist specialized in the making of etchings, inviting you to visit the virtual painting gallery and the art gallery in Avignon. |
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