Exlibrist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

🇺🇸William Blake

Art

Romanticism

"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."

🇳🇱Jacob Maris

Art

Hague School

1837–1899

"The Brothers Maris , ed. Charles Holme; text: D.C. Thomson; publishers: Offices of 'The Studio', London - Paris, 1907"

🇬🇧Paul Nash (artist)

Art

Modernism

1889–1946

"I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision."

Albrecht Dürer

Art

German Renaissance

1471–1528

"Links to online museum images of all of Dürer's prints"

🇩🇪Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Art

Impressionism

1884–1976

"..we didn't have the intention at all of founding a new style.. .What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices."

🇬🇧Aubrey Beardsley

Art

Symbolism

1872–1898

"The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday."

🇬🇧David Cameron

Politics

1933–2012

"The extremist world view is the gateway, and violence is the ultimate destination."

🇬🇧Edward Gordon Craig

Entertainment

1872–1966

"I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors."

🇫🇷Jean Cocteau

Literature

theatre of the absurd

1889–1963

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

William Hogarth

Art

Realism

1697–1764

"Experience teaches us that the eye may be subdued and forced into forming and disposing of objects even quite contrary to what it would naturally see them, by pre judgement of the mind or some other persuasive motive."

🇩🇪Wilhelm Busch (pastor)

Art

1832–1908

"All religions are human attempts to find God. But they all have this in common: they have all gone astray in the fog and have not been able to discover God."

Piet Mondrian

Art

Symbolism

1872–1944

"In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost."

Käthe Kollwitz

Art

Expressionism

1867–1945

"I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art."

Anton Mauve

Art

Hague School

1838–1888

"Just follow the lead of the Dutch seventeenth-century master-painters, we have to look at the country around us in the way the old masters did."

🇸🇪Tove Jansson

Literature

1914–2001

"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected."