Diary, 29 August 1932.
Quotation posted with the permission of the National Scottish Library, Edinburgh, Scotland.
“All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.”
“The most perfect art was Greek art. Raphael is the greatest of all masters in painting.”
Such were the doctrines of every art teacher only twenty or thirty years ago.
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1900 - 1920, On Primitive Art – Emil Nolde, 1912
Source: I Capture the Castle
“The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.”
The Beauty of Life (1880).
“The Universe is the greatest piece of art”
Catalogue to exhibition in Gallery 38 - Copenhagen, 1976, as cited in: Leszek Brogowski & Dorota Czerner (transl.). Jacek Tylicki: Art and Artworks. 2014
“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.”
“I declare peace the greatest work of art.”
Wolf Vostell (1980) Wolf Vostell : de-collagen; Verwischungen. p. 23
Original: Ich erkläre den Frieden zum größten Kunstwerk.
