„The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.“
“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 317
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
André Gide16
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— Piet Mondrian Peintre Néerlandais 1872 - 1944
'A New Realism', p. 17
1940's, A New Realism', 1943-1945
„A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.“
— Eugéne Ionesco Romanian playwright 1909 - 1994
„Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse“
— Anzia Yezierska American writer 1880 - 1970
Of Poland, Red Ribbon on a White Horse, ch. 9 (1950)
— Dante Alighieri, buch Dantes Inferno
Canto XI, lines 103–105 (tr. Charles Eliot Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
„There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.“
— Ernst Gombrich art historian 1909 - 2001
E. H. Gombrich, (1950, p. 15) cited in: Paul Smith, Carolyn Wilde (2008). A Companion to Art Theory, p. 428.
— Leslie Weatherhead English theologian 1893 - 1976
Quelle: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.28
— Steven Curtis Chapman American Christian music singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist 1962
Press conference after 2007 GMA Music Awards http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5378840845486744543&q=steven+curtis+chapman
— Jean Dubuffet, buch Prospectus et tous écrits suivants
Quelle: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 206
„Once thou art wed, no longer canst thou be
Lord of thyself.“
— Alexis Athenian poet of Middle Comedy -372 - -270 v.Chr
Fabulae Incertae, Fragment 34, 7.
— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935
Light (1919), Ch. XX The Cult
Kontext: If, from the idea of motherland, you take away covetousness, hatred, envy and vainglory; if you take away from it the desire for predominance by violence, what is there left of it?
It is not an individual unity of laws; for just laws have no colors. It is not a solidarity of interests, for there are no material national interests — or they are not honest. It is not a unity of race; for the map of the countries is not the map of the races. What is there left?
There is left a restricted communion, deep and delightful; the affectionate and affecting attraction in the charm of a language — there is hardly more in the universe besides its languages which are foreigners — there is left a personal and delicate preference for certain forms of landscape, of monuments, of talent. And even this radiance has its limits. The cult of the masterpieces of art and thought is the only impulse of the soul which, by general consent, has always soared above patriotic littlenesses.
„The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.“
— Ralph Vaughan Williams English composer 1872 - 1958
National Music (1934) p. 123.
— Hans Hofmann American artist 1880 - 1966
'Excerpts from the Teaching of Hans Hofmann', p. 59
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
„The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.“
— André Gide French novelist and essayist 1869 - 1951
Entry for November 23, 1940
Journals 1889-1949
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Existencilism (2002)
— William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827
Public Address, Blake's Notebook c. 1810
1810s
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
Kontext: Art is a mystery.
A mystery is something immeasurable.
In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn’t matter a very good God damn...
— William Morris author, designer, and craftsman 1834 - 1896
"The History of Pattern-Designing" lecture (1882) The Collected Works of William Morris (1910 - 1915) Vol. 22
