
Education: What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?
Essays on Education (1861)
On poetry
Education: What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?
Essays on Education (1861)
“Poetry is bound to concern itself chiefly with permanent aspects of life.”
As quoted in Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (1981) edited by Leonard S. Klein, Vol. 2, p. 504
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Nero
quote, 1937; last lines of Mondrian's publication in 'Circle'; as cited in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska; Thames and Hudson, London 1990, p. 117
1930's
Die Architektur ist dann die Kristallisation, die Skulptur die organische Figuration der Materie in ihrer sinnlich-räumlichen Totalität; die Malerei die gefärbte Fläche und Linie; während in der Musik der Raum überhaupt zu dem in sich erfüllten Punkt der Zeit übergeht; bis das äußere Material endlich in der Poesie ganz zur Wertlosigkeit herabgesetzt ist.
Part III https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ae/ch03.htm
Lectures on Aesthetics (1835)
“The moment is God's will. Life reveals itself only to the conscious.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: The moment is God's will. Life reveals itself only to the conscious. The disharmony is in the robot mind's desire to control life to suit its individual interests - an impossibility; but you keep trying.
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
Mondrian's reaction on a questionnaire (c. 1931?)
Quote of Mondrian, as cited in Mondrian, -The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 166
1930's
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.”
Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium 3.346f http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0234%3Astephpage%3D346f.
Variant translations:
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.
See also: Ut pictura poesis
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
1838
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)