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You
have never seen yourself with your eyes shut. If you cannot do
that in a mirror, have a photograph taken. Monny de Boully, Ve;nost
(Eternity), Belgrade 1926
Were
it not for the wind, spiders would spin a web across the skies.
Proverb, The Impossible, Belgrade, 1930
These are the reasons why I abandoned painting as such
“I
realized that it is the least likely path to opening caves as
with the words – Open Sesame!” Radojica Zivanovic Noe
“When
you look at pictures for a hundred times until you are bored,
let the scissors graze on them. Scissors are faster than a kangaroo.
Cut off the girl’s little legs and stick them on the door... Cut
out the ravens from the snow and paste them on a balloon...This
is how you get a paste picture”. Dusan Matic, The Exploits of
the “Five Cockerels Gang”, Belgrade 1933
“Braque
once asked whether his ’still life’ would hold its own if it were
placed in the middle of a field of wheat. And Picasso inserted,
attached, integrated, factored in, in addition to a completely
withered leaf and other objects pasted into the picture, a real
butterfly. Speaking about that picture Breton notes that in it,
the living and the dead, objective and subjective life and the
so–called three kingdoms (animal, plant and mineral) are in unity
and that it is the first time that a real butterfly was incorporated
into a system of human representation without destroying the system,
nor harming it in any way... As a human creation, that world of
Picasso’s, that poetic microcosm, manages to hold its own before
the inimitable and miraculous work of nature itself.” Marko Ristic,
Pablo Picasso, 1937
“Now
I have placed that bracelet, that flitting impression between
light and the field: the miracle becomes possible. I will also
see to it that the photographic camera plays a role, sometimes
even that of the first lover, but there is no more hope for musicians
and politicians, for philistines and psychologists.” Marko Ristic,
The Death of A Photographer, Without Measure, Belgrade 1928
“I
described Surrealism as a movement which had an enthusiasm of
its own, which tried to encompass a series of very different manifestations
of life, from poetry to love, from imagination to humor, from
revolt to dream, from the indispensability of social revolution
to the breaching of all dams to creation.” Marko Ristic, On Diaries,
on Continuity, on Surrealism and on the Wind, 1963
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