„I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death.“

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— Lin Yutang

Epilogue, p. 328
My Country and My People (1935)

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Lin Yutang1

chinesischer Schriftsteller 1895 - 1976

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— John Barnes, buch Mother of Storms

Section 2, “Vortex“ (p. 214)
Mother of Storms (1994)

„It was a summer evening; and the sea
Seem'd to rejoice in its tranquillity;
Rolling its gentle waters to the west,
Till the rich crimson blush'd upon their breast,
Uniting lovingly the wave and sky,
Like Hope content in its delight to die.“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)

„Love is like the glass,
That throws its own rich colour over all,
And makes all beautiful.“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

Roland's Tower
The Improvisatrice (1824)

„Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.“

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— James Anthony Froude, buch The Nemesis of Faith

Arthur's commentary
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

„But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.“

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— Knut Hamsun, buch Dreamers

Quelle: Dreamers

„Of true benevolence, its charms divine,
With other motives to call forth its power,
And its grand triumphs, multiplied beyond
All former bounds, in this its golden age,
Humbly I sing, awed by the holy theme;
A theme exalted, though as yet unsung,
In beauty rich, of inspiration full,
And worthy of a nobler harp than that
From which heroic strains sublimely sound.“

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— Carlos Wilcox American poet 1794 - 1827

Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox: with a memoir of his life (1828), p. 99 https://archive.org/details/remainsofrevcarl00wilc/page/100/mode/2up
Poetry

„Painting does not use language. Abstract painting teaches us this, and this is what gives it its power of expression. If colour does not relate to the feelings of our soul through an external relation but finds its true being in them – as a pure sensation and a pure experience – then it does not even need to translate, through a means, the abstract content of our invisible life. It coincides with our invisible life and is its pathos: its suffering, its boredom, its neglect or its joy.“

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— Michel Henry French writer 1922 - 2002

Books on Culture and Barbarism, Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky (1988)
Quelle: Michel Henry, Seeing the invisible: On Kandinsky, Continuum, 2009, p. 72

„Sadly, I part from you;
Like a clam torn from its shell,
I go, and autumn too.“

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— Bashō Matsuo Japanese poet 1644 - 1694

Quelle: Narrow Road to the Interior

„The stronger and more powerful a state, the highest and richer the life of its inhabitants.“

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— Alfredo Rocco Italian politician and jurist 1875 - 1935

As quoted in Modern Political Ideologies, Third Edition, Andrew Vincent, West Sussex, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 156

„I love those skies, thin blue or snowy gray,
Those fields sparse-planted, rendering meagre sheaves;
That spring, briefer than apple-blossom’s breath,
Summer, so much too beautiful to stay,
Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves,
And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.“

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— Elinor Wylie, buch Nets to Catch the Wind

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Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), Wild Peaches

„…and i am learning to hope
like a bird
learns
its first
affair
with wind
and sun
like an orange
learns
to take flight
into the mouth
of a boy
in summer…“

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— Andrés Montoya American writer 1968 - 1999

Quelle: Excerpt from his poem “three thousand lost kisses” https://poets.org/poem/three-thousand-lost-kisses

„With what resignation we arrive at the end of life, resigned to all its failures on the one hand, all its uncertainties on the other, for so long I have hoped for nothing, and the desire for glorification after death seems to me an overblown ambition; my own ambition has been confined to a desire to fix something of all that passes, oh! Something, the least little thing, well! That ambition, too, is overblown.“

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— Berthe Morisot painter from France 1841 - 1895

late note of Berthe Morisot, c. 1892-1895; as cited in Berthe Morisot, Jean-Dominique Rey; translation in English, Flammarion, S.A. (ISBN: 978-2-08-020345-8), Paris, 2016, p. 133
1881 - 1895

„Up climb’d the sweet pea,
The butterfly of flowers:—I love it not,
Though every hue—and it has many tints—
Are dyed as if the sunset evening clouds
Had fallen to the earth in sudden rain,
And left their colours : purple, delicate pink,
And snowy white, are on thy wing-like leaves;
But thou art all too forward in thy bloom;
Thy blossoms are the sun’s, and cling to all
That can support them into open day:
And then they die, leaving no root behind,
The hope and promise of another spring;
And no perfume, whose lingering gratitude
Remains round what upheld its summer’s life.“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Last of the St. Aubyns
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

„We have never heard Seurat, Cross, Luce, Van de Velde or indeed Van Rysselberghe or Angrand speak of dots. We have never seen them be preoccupied by Pointillism. Read these lines, dictated by Seurat to Jules Christophe, his biographer: 'Art is harmony; harmony is the analogy between opposites and between similar elements of tone, tint and line. By tone I mean light and dark; tint is red and its complementary: green, orange and its complementary: blue, yellow and its complementary: purple... The method of expression relies on the optical mixture of tones, tints and their reactions“

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— Paul Signac French painter 1863 - 1935

shadows that follow very strict rules
Quote from Maria Buszek, online - note 22 http://mariabuszek.com/mariabuszek/kcai/Expressionism/Readings/SignacDelaNeo.pdf
Seurat's quote from: Jules Christophe, Seurat, in 'Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui', no. 368, March-April 1890
From Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism, 1899

„For his was now the loveliest part
Of the young poet's life, when first,
In solitude and silence nurst,
His genius rises like a spring
Unnoticed in its wandering;
Ere winter cloud or summer ray
Have chill'd, or wasted it away“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)