Source: The Book of Tea
Source: Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life
"The Legacy of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara" - Memorial Lecture http://www.flp.org.fj/s030827.htm, Waterfront Hotel, Lautoka, 27 August 2003
quote of 1918
quoted in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 85
1912 – 1919
Paris 1923
As quoted by Marius de Zayas, in 'The Arts', New York, May 1923
Quotes, 1920's, "Picasso Speaks," 1923
Source: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 2
Context: Ought I to say that the form of change is fixity, or more precisely, that change is an endless search for fixity? A nostalgia for inertia: indolence and its frozen paradises. Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. It is transition. But the moment I say transition, the spell is broken. Transition is not wisdom, but a simple going toward… Transition vanishes: only thus is it transition.
“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.”
A Dreary Story or A Tedious Story (1889)
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: In the far north, where humans must face the constant threat of starvation, where life is reduced to the bare essentials—it turns out that one of these essentials is art. Art seems to belong to the basic pattern of life of the Eskimo, and of the neighboring Athapaskan and Algonkian Indian bands as well.<!-- pp. 36-37
Preface
His Master's Voice (1968)
Context: Clarity of thought is a shining point in a vast expanse of unrelieved darkness. Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom, and its typical cowardice is to bathe in its own glow and avoid, as much as possible, looking out beyond its boundary. No matter how much genuine strength it may contain, there is also, inevitably, a considerable part that is only the pretense of that strength.
