“These times call not for merriment only, but for movement.”
Yolanda King (1955–2007) American actress
1980s
As cited in "Being and Language in Averroes' “Tahafut At-Tahafut” (2003) by Massimo Campanini
“These times call not for merriment only, but for movement.”
Yolanda King (1955–2007) American actress
1980s
“Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.”
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and piano teacher
The Essence of Music (1923)
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Paraphrased and misattributed, actually from "Die Musik des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts und ihre Pflege: Methode der Musik" ("The Music of the Nineteenth Century, and its Culture") by Adolf Bernhard Marx: "Die Kunst ist stets und überall das geheime Bekenntnis und unsterbliche Denkmal ihrer Zeit." ("Art is always and everywhere the secret confession as well as the undying monuments of its time.").
Misattributed
Gloria Allred (1941) American civil rights lawyer
December 6, 2014, Gloria Allred: The Battle Over Sexual Assault is the ‘Civil Rights Movement of Our Time’, May 15, 2014, Time magazine, Gloria Allred http://time.com/100055/campus-sexual-assault-gloria-allred/,
Lucy R. Lippard (1937) American art curator
Source: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973), p. vii.
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) Swiss painter and sculptor
Original text in German:
Es bewegt sich alles, Stillstand gibt es nicht. Lasst Euch nicht von überlebten Zeitbegriffen beherrschen. Fort mit den Stunden, Sekunden und Minuten. Hört auf, der Veränderlichkeit zu widerstehen. SEID IN DER ZEIT – SEID STATISCH, SEID STATISCH – MIT DER BEWEGUNG. Fur Statik. Im Jetzt stattfindenden JETZT... Lasst es sein, Kathedralen und Pyramiden zu bauen, die zerbröckeln wie Zuckerwerk. Atmet tief, lebt Jetzt, lebt auf und in der Zeit. Für eine schöne und absolute Wirklichkeit!
In For Statics (original title: Für Statik), 1958 programmatic text for the 'Concert for Seven Pictures' in Düsseldorf: as quoted in: Arts/Canada. Vol. 25. (1968) p. 4.
Quotes, 1950's
Harvey Milk (1930–1978) American politician who became a martyr in the gay community
From a tape recording (1977-11-18) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 276
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
Vol. I, Ch. 4, The World As Will: Second Aspect, as translated by Eric F. J. Payne (1958) p. 322
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“We, the founders of Dada-movement try to give time its own reflection in the mirror.”
Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) German artist
In first edition of the journal Merz, 1923.
1920s
Daniel McCallum (1815–1878) Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist
Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856)