"He kept a record of everything he thought, saw or felt in his dossiers, those files that he meticulously stored, clasified and returned to throughout his career".
"Cornell identified the creative mind as his ultimate subject".
"It is clear that one reason his art remained so self-concerned was because he sought always to recreate the remembered qualities of this childhood".
"Andre Breton, in his first Surrealist manifesto of 1924, wrote that Surrealism was psychic automism in its pure state, by which one purposes to express- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner- the actual functioning of though, in the absense of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aestheric or moral concern".
"Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought".
"As can be seen from his celebrated definition, the emphasis is on process, and a process that resembles the free association of psychoanalysis rather than anything to do with creativity or craft"
"The function of art is very much to reveal to the creator the actual workings of the mental and creative processes. From here it is easy to see why collage was so much a favoured form for the Surrealists"
"Cornell's work was part of a continuing struggle to come to terms with consciousness", He "completely validated his researches into the self"
'Nothing, after all, could be more selfconscious than an obsessive habit of noting, hoarding and storing the history of one's own mind"
Cornell once said according to David Mann who exhibited his work; "You don't know how terrible it is to be locked into boxes all your life, you have
no idea what a terrible thing it is".
"His largest dossier, yet one that has received little notice, displays the neurosis that threatened to envelop him as he strove to create a system of classification that would make some order out of the relentless tide of associations that flood
ed his mind".
"He had wanted to invent, recreate a miniature universe- this we see most acutely in his Soap Bubble Sets"
"either timelessness exists or all times do""It was his spirit that essentially, he tried to recover in his boxes".
"The artists urge towards self-revelation is everywhere apparent".
"His work is always a dialogue with- as well as a projection of -the self".
"He ordered and catalogued his responses in an elaborate system of dossiers,a system he maintained throughout his life"
"He noted in his diary 'the prospect of cluttered cellar- / creative filing / creative arranging / as poetics / as technique / as joyous creation'".
"We can see that his decision to work wth dossiers" "- was an attempt to control, categorize and label the wealth of material that flooded in".
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