Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) French painter
Source: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906), pp. 184-185 in: 'What he told me – II. The Louvre'
“… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
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Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) Russian painter
Jawlensky is looking back on his encounter with French art through his voyage with Marianne Werefkin to Normandy and Paris, in 1903 when he discovered Van Gogh
1900 - 1935
Source: Expressionism: A Revolution in German Art, Dietmer Elger, Taschen, 2002, p. 166
“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”
Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet
Source: "Against Sincerity", in American Poetry Review, Vol. XXII, No. 5 (1993), p. 29
John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950) American writer
Life is My Song, John Gould Fletcher, Autobiography, 1937
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
The New York Times (16 December 1969)
“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”
Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: I want you to understand what has been done in the world to force men to think alike. It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike. Why did he not do so? Why did he make your brain so that you could not by any possibility be a Methodist? Why did he make yours so that you could not be a Catholic? And why did he make the brain of another so that he is an unbeliever — why the brain of another so that he became a Mohammedan — if he wanted us all to believe alike?
After all, maybe Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty. Maybe, after all, it would not be best for us all to be just the same. What a stupid world, if everybody said yes to everything that everybody else might say.
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes — more important than gold or houses or lands — more important than art or science — more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
Le Jardin d'Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
“In art the best is good enough.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Italian Journey
In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
Italian Journey (March 3, 1787)