Etel Adnan Quotes

Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

~ Etel Adnan

Beings Colours Entities Exist Me Metaphysical Themselves

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Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

~ Etel Adnan

Any Bring Inner Money Regardless Soul Success Tells Will You Your

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I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

~ Etel Adnan

Always Did Enough Few Few People Had Liked People Who

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I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

~ Etel Adnan

Boycott French Like Read Rejection Want Write

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I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

~ Etel Adnan

Him I Love Looked Love Our Particularly People Remind Similar Work Works

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I write what I see; I paint what I am.

~ Etel Adnan

Am I Am I See I Write Paint See Write

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Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

~ Etel Adnan

Absolute Became House Longer Mount Mountain Painting

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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

~ Etel Adnan

Am Connection Direct Direct Connection Doing Done Each Everything I Am Influence Linked Measure Mind Other Paintings Sure Whatever Which Writing

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Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

~ Etel Adnan

Banker Become Born Color Cover Down Musician Never Once Put Up Why You

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Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

~ Etel Adnan

Become Bigger Bigger Picture Change Contemplate Experiences Lives Nature Our Our Lives Own Part Picture Places Right Sometimes Spiritual Them

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Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

~ Etel Adnan

Am Case Close Compulsive Expressed I Am Kind Least Need Paint Painting Person Poetry Rapid Sometimes Spontaneous

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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

~ Etel Adnan

Center Paris Taught Think Universe Were

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