August Wilhelm von Schlegel Quotes
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
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There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
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Romanticism, like the Rousseauist Swinging Sixties, misunderstands the Dionysian as the pleasure principle, when it is in fact the gross continuum of pleasure-pain. Worshiping nature and seeking political and sexual freedom, Romanticism ends in imaginative entrammelment of every kind. Perfect freedom is intolerable and therefore impossible.
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The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.
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This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.
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The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha.' Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.
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I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.
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A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.
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If I'm around a boy I have a crush on, I can't even talk most of the time.
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We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
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In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
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That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
