104 quotes found
“And is not all of life material- based on the material- permeated by the material? Should not one learn, gladly, to utilize the beauty of the fine material? I do not speak of the gross crudities of...”
“The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.”
“When Verlaine and Rimbaud were young, [Snyder] said, they were protesting the iron-grip bourgeois rationality had on all aspects of nineteenth-century French culture the manners, the view of realit...”
“We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into commerce or politics, there is at least an impulse still in the human breast to unify and thereby s...”
“By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively as I attempt to do in this book we strengthen the capacity of our minds to reason, imagine and think through ideas in a way unrestraine...”
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
“[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launched out with particular vehemence and acrimony against the natural philosophers, and especially aga...”
“Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable...”
“We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ou...”
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and ...”
“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”
“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgical...”
“And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the senses to reach the soul, did it not also stand to reason that dogs -- at least dogs of Mr. Bones' ...”
“And it suggests this truth about the place where aesthetic form meets the human mind. For even if we were to find ourselves homeless, in a strange land, with nothing of ourselves left-say we lost e...”
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
“More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it t...”
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”
“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.”
“Everything good is good because of the love it contains.”
“The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.”
