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

~Etel Adnan

Topics: Beings Colours Entities Exist Me Metaphysical Themselves

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

~Etel Adnan

Topics: Center Paris Taught Think Universe Were

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

~Etel Adnan

Topics: Boycott French Like Read Rejection Want Write

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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

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

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

~Etel Adnan

Topics: Always Did Enough Few Few People Had Liked People Who

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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

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

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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.

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

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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

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

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

~Etel Adnan

Topics: Am Paint See Write I Am I See I 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

Topics: Absolute Became House Longer Mount Mountain Painting

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Poet

Born: February 24th, 1925

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