David Smith (1906–1965) American visual artist (1906-1965)
1940s, The Question – What is your Hope' (c. 1940s)
David Smith (1906–1965) American visual artist (1906-1965)
1940s, The Question – What is your Hope' (c. 1940s)
“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 97, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual life, Faith
Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) Armenian-American painter
Gorky's quote refers to the heavy swift in modern art because of the appearance of Cubism
1942 - 1948
Source: 'Camouflage', 1942; an announcement for a teaching program [set up by Gorky and the director of the Grand Central School of Art, Edmund Greasen]
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)
Context: I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.