“On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.”
André Malraux, TV program: Promenades imaginaires dans Florence, 1975.
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Fernand Léger - The Later Years, catalogue ed. Nicolas Serota, published by the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art gallery, London, Prestel Verlag, 1988, p. 12
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1980's
Lecture XX, "Conclusions"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Context: Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. As Thomas Henry Huxley said, "If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is there anyone who knows so much as to be out of danger?" …. The problems of learning to read or write are inexhaustible.
“Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.”
Adsiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.
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Variant translation: Constant practice given to one matter often conquers both genius and art.
Pro Balbo, section 45
Habermas (1972) "Sprachspiel, intention und Bedeutung. Zu Motiven bei Sellars und Wittgenstein". In R.W. Wiggerhaus (Ed.) Sprachanalyse and Soziologie. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp). p. 334
This is called the paradoxical achievement of intersubjectivity
“The only thing of which we can be sure—time passes—everything else is vanity.”
Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 33 (p. 475)