“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King book On Writing
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Variant: Books are a uniquely portable magic
“The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 233
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“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Post to comp.os.minix newsgroup, 1992-01-29, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1992Jan29.231426.20469%40klaava.Helsinki.FI, According to Torvalds, this was "tongue in cheek" (Ibid.) <br class="br">1990s, 1991-94
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) American artist
Source: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, p. 144
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) American artist
In his application for a grant given by the Guggenheim Foundation 1944; as quoted in Abstract expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen Köln, 2006, p. 9
1940's
Robert Kuok (1923) Malaysian businessman
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Wendy Doniger (1940) American Indologist
On the cultural aspect of India.
Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) Russian painter
in mainly small sizes
from: 'Lebenserinnerungen', 1938
This small house was in St. Prex, in Switzerland, lake Genova, where Jawlensky concentrated himself on the view around his house in the years after 1914.. ..he painted here more than 400 'Variations on a landscape theme', in St. Prex
Source: 1936 - 1941, Life Memories' (1938), p. 186
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Variant: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Source: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3<!-- p. 50 -->
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Afterword (1984)
Context: A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books occur almost accidentally, like a sudden change in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are an part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.
Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter
Quote in Marc's letter to the publisher Reinhard Piper, 1908, as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, ed. Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 207
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