Wenn der Kunst kein Tempel mehr offen steht, dann flüchtet sie in die Werkstatt.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 24.
George Grosz (1893–1959) German artist
Quoted by William Bolcom, in The End of the Mannerist Century / quoted in Art of the 20th Century, Part 1, Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke; publisher: Taschen 2000, p. 190
“That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor
"Shrine or Factory?" (1918); translation from Mikhail Anikst et al. (eds.) Soviet Commercial Design of the Twenties (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987) p. 15
Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986) Indian Bharatnatyam dancer
On her "Kootahmabalam temple theater" set up in her hundred acre Kalakshetra, quoted in "Rukmini Devi Arundale, 1904-1986: A Visionary Architect of Indian Culture and the Performing Arts", page 14
“Art was a palace once, things great and fair,
And strong and holy, found a temple there:”
Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) British writer
To the Reader English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook.
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
Willa Cather (1873–1947) American writer and novelist
"Four Letters: Escapism" first published in Commonweal (17 April 1936)
Willa Cather on Writing (1949)
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
Willa Cather, "Four Letters: Escapism" first published in Commonweal (17 April 1936)
Misattributed
“Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.”
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) Prussian architect, city planner, and painter
As quoted in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11 (1976) by Garland Publishing, p. 94; also in The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"I Am Too Close..."
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
