Max Beckmann (1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
as quoted in the exhibition, 'Expressionisten, die Avantgarde in Deutschland 1905 - 1920', catalog Nationalgalerie Berlin, DDR, 1986, p. 109
1900s - 1920s
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
as quoted in the exhibition, 'Expressionisten, die Avantgarde in Deutschland 1905 - 1920', catalog Nationalgalerie Berlin, DDR, 1986, p. 109
1900s - 1920s
“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia
Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 25 (p. 209)
“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 48
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”
James Huneker (1857–1921) American music critic
The Pathos of Distance (1915), p. 120
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.