„Structures of lines, surfaces, forms, colours. They try to approach the eternal, the inexpressible above men. They are a denial of human egotism. They are the hatred of human immodesty, the hatred of images, of paintings.. Wisdom [is] the feeling for the coming reality, the mystical, the definite indefinite, the greatest definite.“
Arp's quote from his text in a catalogue of his exhibition, in Zürich 1915; quoted by Arp himself in his text 'Abstract Art, Concrete Art,' Hans Arp, c. 1942; as quoted in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, by Herschel Browning Chipp, Peter Selz, p. 390
1910-20s
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— Carl Schmitt German jurist, political theorist and professor of law 1888 - 1985
Political Theology (1922), Ch. 3 : Political Theology

— Gustave Flaubert French writer (1821–1880) 1821 - 1880
Quelle: Correspondence, Letters to George Sand, 10 May 1867
— David O. McKay President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1873 - 1970
LDS General Conference (October 1964)
Kontext: The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
It was for this purpose that Christ, the Son of righteousness, 'with healing in his wings,' came in the Meridian of Time. Through him wickedness shall be overcome, hatred, enmity, strife, poverty, and war abolished. This will be accomplished only by a slow but never-failing process of changing men's mental and spiritual attitude. The ways and habits of the world depend upon the thoughts and soul-convictions of men and women. If, therefore, we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts. Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

— William S. Burroughs, buch Naked Lunch
Islam Incorporated and the Parties of Interzone
Naked Lunch (1959)

„The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.“
— Virginia Woolf, buch The Waves
Quelle: The Waves

„I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.“
— John Diefenbaker 13th Prime Minister of Canada 1895 - 1979
March 29, 1958, Maclean's.

— W. H. Auden, buch Forewords and Afterwords
"C.P. Cavafy", p. 341
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Kontext: In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
The virtue of patriotism has been extolled most loudly and publicly by nations that are in the process of conquering others, by the Roman, for example, in the first century B. C., the French in the 1790s, the English in the nineteenth century, and the Germans in the first half of the twentieth. To such people, love of one's country involves denying the right of others, of the Gauls, the Italians, the Indians, the Poles, to love theirs.

— Giorgio Morandi Italian painter 1890 - 1964
in an interview with L. Vitali, 1957; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, published by Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco - 2008; p. 295
1945 - 1964

— Maimónides, buch The Guide for the Perplexed
Quelle: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.11

— Umberto Boccioni Italian painter and sculptor 1882 - 1916
Quote in his lecture at the Associazione Artistica Internationale, Rome May 1911, Boccioni's lecture 'La Pittura Futurista', 1911; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 55.
1911

„The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.“
— Scott Westerfeld American science fiction writer 1963

— Edvard Munch Norwegian painter and printmaker 1863 - 1944
1896 - 1930
Quelle: Diary Saint Cloud, 1898; Munch, as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 105