
c. 1910; as quoted in: Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella: Zwei Modelle der Brücke-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner und Pechstein, Norbert Nobis; Sprengel Museum Hannover und Stiftung Moritzburg, 2011, p 17
1905 - 1915
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 192
Context: Art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition — otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.
c. 1910; as quoted in: Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella: Zwei Modelle der Brücke-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner und Pechstein, Norbert Nobis; Sprengel Museum Hannover und Stiftung Moritzburg, 2011, p 17
1905 - 1915
“Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.”
Part I, Essay 15: The Epicurean
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
“A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor?”
A play on the line's in Robert Browning's poem "Andrea del Sarto":
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p.7
“If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.”
As quoted in Barry N. Schwartz, The new humanism: art in a time of change, Praeger 1974, p. 179.
Guerrero: Holy See’s bottom line is in view of mission https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-05/guerrero-holy-see-economy-mission-deficit-default-income-expense.html (13 May 2020)
“Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 276
Source: Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943), p. 51
Page 136; from his "Music and Life" (1951).
Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)