p 44
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
„Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.“
— Claude Debussy French composer 1862 - 1918
As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
„Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.“
— Remy de Gourmont French writer 1858 - 1915
L'Idealisme esaay in Le Chemin de Velours 1902
Other
„Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.“
— Adam Gopnik American journalist 1956
How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)
„Each work of art generate its own rules“
— Robert Pinsky American poet, editor, literary critic, academic. 1940
Singing School
„Thus for art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.“
— Bertolt Brecht, A Short Organum for the Theatre
¶ 55
A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)
Kontext: Unless an actor is satisfied to be a parrot or a monkey he must master our period's knowledge of human social life by himself joining the war of the classes. Some people may feel this is degrading, because they rank art, once the money side has been settled, as one of the highest things; but mankind's highest decisions are in fact fought out on earth, not in the heavens; in the 'external world', not inside people's heads. Nobody can stand above the warring classes, for nobody can stand above the human race. Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring classes. Thus for art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
— Jean Dubuffet, buch Prospectus et tous écrits suivants
Quelle: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 206
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
What is to be Done? (1902)
— David Sedaris, buch Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Quelle: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
— Daniel Barenboim Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor 1942
Statement at the .
Kontext: Despite the fact that as an art, music cannot compromise its principles, and politics, on the other hand, is the art of compromise, when politics transcends the limits of the present existence and ascents to the higher sphere of the possible, it can be joined there by music. Music is the art of the imaginary par excellence, an art free of all limits imposed by words, an art that touches the depth of human existence, and art of sounds that crosses all borders. As such, music can take the feelings and imagination of Israelis and Palestinians to new unimaginable spheres.
— Isa Genzken German sculptor 1948
living and working in Berlin
after 2010, Isa Genzken, the artist who doesn't do interviews' (2014)
„When I obey a rule, I do not choose.
I obey the rule blindly.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, buch Philosophische Untersuchungen
§ 219
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
„Roman, remember by your strength to rule
Earth's people—for your arts are to be these:
To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.“
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
(Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem,
Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.
— Virgil, Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 851–853 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
— Stuart Davis American painter 1892 - 1964
Quelle: George L. K. Morris, Willem De Kooning, Alexander Calder, Fritz Glarner, Robert Motherwell, Stuart Davis. " What Abstract Art Means to Me http://www.jstor.org/stable/4058250," in: The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Vol. 18, No. 3, (Spring, 1951), pp. 2-15
