Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Quote (1905), # 690, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
1903 - 1910
1910 - 1920
Source: 'Cubofuturism', Malevich, in Essays on Art, op. cit., vol 2; as quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 59
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Quote (1905), # 690, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
1903 - 1910
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
quoted in Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
1970s
Variant: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century
Context: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) Italian painter and sculptor
Quote from 'Il dinamismo futurista et la pittura francese', Boccioni, in 'Lacerba', August 1913; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 118
1913
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman
The Romance of Commerce (1918), Concerning Commerce
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), p. 155
T.S. Eliot book Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Context: What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
Angela Davis (1944) American political activist, scholar, and author
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent
Quote in 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting', Kazimir Malevich, November 1916
1910 - 1920