Malcolm Morley Quotes

• Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.

  Malcolm Morley

  Art, Girlfriend, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

  Malcolm Morley

  Ideas, Landscape, Lost

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• The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

  Malcolm Morley

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  "Malcolm Morley and the Self". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2015.

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• Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.

  Malcolm Morley

  Energy, Source, Unconscious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's not just a question of looking, but of doing, in relation to this, in relation to that, in relation to the space between things.

  Malcolm Morley

  Space, Glasses, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct it into images that would appear. You already feel very ill and you're trying to put this riddle together because it is the prescription for health. I believe in art as a spiritual health-giving process, not just some style.

  Malcolm Morley

  Spiritual, Art, Integrity

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• Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

  Malcolm Morley

  Dream, Thinking, Self

  "Malcolm Morley and the self". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2015.

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• I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

  Malcolm Morley

  Past, Self, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

  Malcolm Morley

  Ideas, Rocks, Self

  "Malcolm Morley and the self". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2015.

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• Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.

  Malcolm Morley

  Girl, Artist, Ideas

  "Malcolm Morley and the Self". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2015.

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