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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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Etel Adnan
Profession
Poet
BirthDate
24 February, 1925
Country
Lebanon
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