to Werner Drewes, 10 April 1933; as quoted in 'Klee & Kandinsky', 2015 exhibition text, Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich, 2015-2016 https://www.zpk.org/en/exhibitions/review_0/2015/klee-kandinsky-969.html
both were closely connected with the Bauhaus, closed by the Nazi-regime in 1933
1930 - 1944
“Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.”
31 January 2005
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
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Source: Art & Other Serious Matters, (1985), p. 55, "Evidences of Surreality"
“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: Art is this intense form of individualism that makes the public try to exercise over it an authority that is as immoral as it is ridiculous, and as corrupting as it is contemptible. It is not quite their fault. The public have always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity. Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
“What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.”
Ce qu'on appelle la postérité, c'est la postérité de l'œuvre.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919), Ch. I: "Madame Swann at Home"
18 March 1857
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
"An Artistic Impression" (1909) in Style and Idea (1985), p. 189
1900s
Some Versions of Pastoral (London: Chatto & Windus, 1935) p. 15.
Other
(1986) n.p.
Structures are no longer valid', in "Ein Gespräch..."
Letter to H. E. Kramer, 25-10-1926, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 44 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1920's