
"Talks on the Appreciation of Art", The Delinator (Jan 1915)
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Introduction to Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast (c. 1993).
Context: The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.
"Talks on the Appreciation of Art", The Delinator (Jan 1915)
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(original Dutch, citaat van B.C. Koekkoek:) Het streven naar volmaaktheid in den kunst moet den kunstenaar steeds een edelen pligt zijn, maar hier.. .Hier [bij de Drachenfels] gevoelt hij, meer dan op eenige andere plek, te levendig zijn onvermogen.. .Laat af, schilder! Vergenoeg u met den indruk dien het op uwe ziel maak; tracht, zo ge kunt, dezen rein te bewaren, het zal u leren scheppen..
Source: Herinneringen aan en Mededeelingen van…' (1841), p. 121
“Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.”
Veritas autem docendo persuadet non suadendo docet.
Adversus Valentinianos (Against the Valentinians), 1.4
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 444.
“Teach us…… that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.”
Source: Jessamyn Stanley is fighting for radical visibility and yoga for every body, Samantha Grasso, Aug 28, 2018, 2018 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/jessamyn-stanley/,
“I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)”
Source: Acheron