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Etel Adnan [1925-0] Lebanese
Rank: 104
Poet


Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

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Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you. Money, Success
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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
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I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
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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?
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I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.
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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.
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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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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.
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I write what I see; I paint what I am.
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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.
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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.
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Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.
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