Ernst Gombrich citations

Ernst Gombrich

✵ 30. mars 1909 – 3. novembre 2001
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Ernst Gombrich: Citations en anglais

“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.”

Ernst Gombrich Art and Illusion

Quoted in: Willie Maartens (2006). Mapping Reality, p. 185.
Art and Illusion (1960)

“If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.”

Ernst Gombrich livre A Little History of the World

Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 90.

“There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.”

E. H. Gombrich, (1950, p. 15) cited in: Paul Smith, ‎Carolyn Wilde (2008). A Companion to Art Theory, p. 428.

“Even though I came from a Jewish home myself, it never entered my head that such horrors might be repeated in my own lifetime.”

Ernst Gombrich livre A Little History of the World

Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 276.

“Like art, science is born of itself, not of nature. There is no neutral naturalism. The artist, no less than the writer, needs a vocabulary before he can embark on a 'copy' of reality.”

E. H. Gombrich (1962), quoted in: Robert Maxwell Young. Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century, 1970. p. 101.

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