“In the moment of creating I am aware neither of myself nor of others.”
The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 26
“In the moment of creating I am aware neither of myself nor of others.”
The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)
“I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.”
Quote from a report of the municipal of Toledo, c. September 1579; as cited by Albert F. Calvert, and Catherine Gasquoine-Hartley in: The Spanish Series - El Greco; an account of his life and works; publisher, London: J. Lane; New York: J. Lane Co, 1909, p. 76
this answer El Greco gave to the Mayor of Toledo, when asked - in connection with the writ served on him for the commissioned painting 'The Disrobing of Christ / The Expolio' - whether he had been brought to Toledo to paint the retablo of Santo Domingo (containing 15 paintings of El Greco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco#/media/File:Domenikos_Theotok%C3%B3poulos,_called_El_Greco_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own.”
The History of England, Book ii
Context: I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
1860s, Reply to Charles Kingsley (1860)
DB inscription http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#db1, COLUMN 4, 63. (4.61-7.)
“I hate bainting, and boetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good.”
John Ireland Hogarth Illustrated (1791); cited from John Ireland and John Nichols Hogarth's Works (1883) p. 122.
Later sources usually quote this as "I hate all bainters and boets!", or as "Damn the bainters and the boets too!" The saying is often misattributed to George I.
Entry (1952)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
“To be or not to be…Neither one nor the other.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Part VII, Chapter 2: On Killing
Mahayana, Śūraṅgama Sūtra