Niki de Saint Phalle .Shadow and light (Bilingual Edition)

“Before me were painted sculptures and sculpted paintings that expressed the artistic obsessions of my generation, embedded objects and dust, triumphant and instinctive painting, precious dirt, the vulgar and the sacred coming together, Eros and Thanatos embracing one another, humor and tragedy interlinked, never-ending stories, autobiography, tales, unlimited imagination, unbelievable references, religion, politics, art, and intelligence too, ideas, a thought, and concepts that did not remain as such— concepts that materialized.”