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9 Cards in this Set
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"Justice in sociology,harmony in art:same thing." |
Paul Signac |
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“I have seen, and heard, much of Cockneyimpudence before now; but neverexpected to hear a coxcomb ask twohundred guineas for flinging a pot of paintin the public's face.” |
John ruskin |
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“It was not just the statue of a man; itwas the very embodiment of a tributeto genius. It looked like a mountaincome to life. It stirred up my interest ingoing to Paris, where artists of Rodin’sstature lived and worked.” |
steichen |
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“A corner of nature... seen through atemperament.” |
Emile zola |
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"In a way, it was simply letting things go by themselves andhaving a sort of created atmosphere in a studio, an apartmentwhere you live. Probably, to help your ideas come out of yourhead. It was very soothing, very comforting, a sort of openingof avenues on other things than material life of every day. Iliked the idea of having a bicycle wheel in my studio. I enjoyedlooking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in afireplace. It was like having a fireplace in my studio, themovement of the wheel reminded me of the movement of theflames." |
Duchamp |
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“In the latter case taste appears not so much in what theImagination apprehends in this field, as in the impulse itthus gets to fiction, i.e. in the peculiar fancies with whichthe mind entertains itself, whilst it is continually beingaroused by the variety which strikes the eye. Anillustration is afforded, e.g. by the sight of the changingshapes of a fire or the hearth or of a rippling brook;neither of these has beauty, but they bring with them acharm for the Imagination, because they entertain it infree play.” |
kant |
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“Everything revolves around this,the Salon: the satisfaction of pride,reputation, fame, fortune and theguarantee of bread and butter.” |
Adolphe Tabarant |
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“Genius is nothing more not less thanchildhood recovered at will..,” |
baudelaire |
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“By ‘modernity’ I mean theephemeral, the fugitive, thecontingent, the half of art whoseother half is the eternal andimmutable…This transitory,fugitive element, whosemetamorphoses are so rapid, muston no account be despised ordispensed with.” |
baudelaire |
