As cited in West, Celeste, 1986, "In Memoriam: Elsa Gidlow", Feminist Studies, 12 (3), 614.
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 88
“An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.”
The Dagger with Wings (1926)
“Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.”
1975 - 1987
Source: Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1975, p. 178
“Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”
Letter to Henry Miller, 1948
In the Name of Sanity (1954)
Context: Today, all the normal mischances of living have been multiplied, a million-fold, by the potentialities for destruction, for an unthinking act of collective suicide, which man's very triumphs in science and invention have brought about. In this situation the artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Regarding his ancestry influencing his work; as quoted in "Americymru" http://americymru.blogspot.com/2010/08/interview-with-lorin-morgan-richards.html "An Interview With Lorin Morgan-Richards” (25 August 2010).
An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s
“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.”
It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
A Grief Observed (1961)
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 188
When asked what she learned from writing to her album
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