
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
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Tim Marlow joins Anselm Kiefer to discuss his work' - 2005
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
Source: 1969 - 1980, In: "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," 1987, p. 9 : 'Notes from 1969'
Speech on Religious Intolerance as presented at the Pittsburgh Opera House (14 October 1879).
Context: They say the religion of your fathers is good enough. Why should a father object to your inventing a better plow than he had? They say to me, do you know more than all the theologians dead? Being a perfectly modest man I say I think I do. Now we have come to the conclusion that every man has a right to think. Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
It's phony reverence. It's ridiculous.
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
Quote in Gainsborough's letter to Hon. Constantine Phipps, undated; as cited in 'My Dear Maggoty Sir – The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough' http://thedabbler.co.uk/2011/10/my-dear-maggoty-sir-the-letters-of-thomas-gainsborough/, review by Roger Hudson, in Slightly Foxed, 18 Oct, 2011
undated
1946 - 1963, interview with John Richardson' (1957)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 9.
“He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.”
"William Prynne"
Brief Lives
“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”
Pt. II, l. 104.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)