
Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
Lee Krasner, Marcia Tucker, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973) Lee Krasner: large paintings. Nr. 33. p. 8.
Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.”
The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field: The love affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896), Ch. IV : The Mania of Collecting Seizes Me, p. 44
Context: Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at everything involving the play of fancy.
“My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does.”
Letter to The Listener October 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 318
1970s
Source: Quote of Mondrian about 1914-1918; in 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943) by Piet Mondrian; Wittenborn-Schultz Inc., New York, 1945, p. 10; as cited in De Stijl 1917-1931 - The Dutch Contribution to Modern Art, by H.L.C. Jaffé http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/jaff001stij01_01/jaff001stij01_01.pdf; J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1956, p. 43
Quote of Mondrian in a letter to H. P. Bremmer, Paris 29 January 1914; ; as cited in Mondrian, - The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 81
1910's