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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."

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🇫🇷Guy Debord

Philosophy

Situationist International

1931–1994

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."

"truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. (Ancient Italian)"

"If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future."

"He has never left the world, but for 2,000 years has waited and planned for this immediate future time, training His disciples, and preparing Himself for the awesome task which awaits Him..."

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🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

high-tech architecture

1895–1983

"There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity."

"'Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously'."

"Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order."

"Gay emasman, lekin boʻlishni istardim, shunchaki gomofoblarni achchiqlantirish uchun."

"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."

"Everything about the process by which public art is commissioned today militates against the commissioning of good artists and the creation of good art."

"I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday..."

"I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli in some degree."

"When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just as system supersedes structure."

"Oral history interview with Roy Lichtenstein, 1963 November 15-1964 January 15; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution"

"The glaring obviousness of my paternity of monochromy in the twentieth century is such that even if I myself were to fight hard against that fact I should probably never manage to rid myself of it."

"We have rejected reason because we have found another reason that could be called trans-rational, which has its own law, construction and sense.. .This reason has found a way-Cubism-of expressing the object."

"Beyond the Visible - The Art of Odilon Redon" - MoMA exhibition"

"At the beginning I was confronted with a choice: move into art or revolutionary politics,... I took the path of art at the age of 18.... I could see this possibility of using the ideas of social change within art."

"original texts of Schwitter's 'Poemas' England 1946"

"“I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it’s barely famous."

"I fancy all distinctively poetical language ought to be banned and the poetry come out of the quality of the idea and the intensity or passion with which it is expressed."

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🇳🇱Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Art

Hague School

1824–1903

"I am here the doctor , bringing his morning visit. I feel them all the pulse. One I say: Wait, I'll make you an ointment, so you will refresh completely. The other I say: Friend, you need air, and even more the light."

"Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around."

"images of paintings and drawings by Jacob Maris, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

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🇳🇱Rembrandt

Art

Dutch Golden Age painting

1606–1669

"Rembrandt van Rijn in the "History of Art"

"There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement."

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."