“Wagner’s art is the most sensational self-portrayal and self-critique of German nature that it is possible to conceive.”
Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner (1933)
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“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Cited in: Paul Bowden, Telling It Like It Is https://books.google.nl/books?id=w8_p1eGVj8gC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=%22Art+attracts+us+only+by+what+it+reveals+of+our+most+secret+self%22+%22jean+luc+godard%22&source=bl&ots=2zIpIhvB_1&sig=uImQSWu8ATehPk0hAhfck-ZowJc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwydLuqp_LAhVhDJoKHdrjACcQ6AEIUjAG#v=onepage&q=%22Art%20attracts%20us%20only%20by%20what%20it%20reveals%20of%20our%20most%20secret%20self%22%20%22jean%20luc%20godard%22&f=false, 2011, p. 182
Source: "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).
On the accusation of being a self-hating Jew, in "Personality: Dr. Israel Shahak" by Richard H. Curtiss" in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (June 1989) http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0689/8906019.htm.
“Veda is Total Knowledge, and Veda is the nature of the Self, and bliss is the nature of the Self.”
Context: And it’s completely not necessary for anyone to make mistake because everyone’s Self is Total Knowledge, Veda. Veda is Total Knowledge, and Veda is the nature of the Self, and bliss is the nature of the Self. And even in the outside world everyone wants to move in the direction of greater joy.
Annual Kwanzaa Message (2009) "Principles and Practices of Kwanzaa: Repairing and Renewing the World." http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/documents/PrinciplesandPracticesofKwanzaa.pdf
The Human: Green Humanism (p. 17)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
The Woman's Bible (1898)
Source: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
“Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 54