„Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.“
— Ali Smith, buch How to Be Both
Quelle: How to Be Both
„What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it.“
— Thomas Stearns Eliot, buch Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Kontext: What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
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— Michael Roberts (writer) English schoolteacher and man of letters 1902 - 1948
Hulme and Modrern Poetry' in ' T E Hulme ',Carcanet Press,Manchester, 1982
— Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981
Letter to H.P. Bremmer, 17-11-1930, City Archive The Hague, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 50 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1930's
„The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us“
— Gloria Steinem American feminist and journalist 1934
— Jean Dubuffet, buch Prospectus et tous écrits suivants
Quelle: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, pp. 203-204
„That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.“
— Tony Blair former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
[Stryker Mcguire, I Did It My Way, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17202843/site/newsweek/, Newsweek International, 2007-02-26, 2007-02-20]
Interview with Newsweek.
2000s
— Carl Andre American artist 1935
Quelle: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 15
— David Allen American productivity consultant and author 1945
7 December 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/144476364966346752
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
— Clement Greenberg American writer and artist 1909 - 1994
"Wyndham Lewis Against Abstract Art" (1957), p. 164
1960s, Art and Culture: Critical Essays, (1961)
— Theo van Doesburg Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer 1883 - 1931
Quote in his article 'Elementarism', as cited in De Stijl – Van Doesburg Issue, January 1932, pp. 17–19
1926 – 1931
— Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986
— Chaim Potok, buch The Gift of Asher Lev
Quelle: The Gift of Asher Lev
— John Ciardi American poet, professor, translator 1916 - 1986
— Max Euwe Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author 1901 - 1981
Max Euwe, in: Fred Reinfeld (1956) Why You Lose at Chess, p. 180.
„Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.“
— John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992
1982, quoted in John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind, ISBN 1891300164
1980s
— George Fisher (musician) vocalist for Cannibal Corpse 1970
Discussing the Cannibal Corpse's usually gory album cover art, specifically "The Wretched Spawn"'s cover art in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.
„One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
„The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.“
— Oscar Wilde, buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: If a man approaches a work of art with any desire to exercise authority over it and the artist, he approaches it in such a spirit that he cannot receive any artistic impression from it at all. The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. The spectator is to be receptive. He is to be the violin on which the master is to play. And the more completely he can suppress his own silly views, his own foolish prejudices, his own absurd ideas of what Art should be, or should not be, the more likely he is to understand and appreciate the work of art in question.
„The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.“
— Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957
“ Ai Weiwei: Artistic Licence http://www.economist.com/node/21554178.” Economist, May 5, 2012.
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