“Where obscenity and art are mixed art must be so preponderating as to throw the obscenity into shadow.”
His view as a connoisseur of art, inconsistent with public morals and decency.
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“The true work of art
is but a shadow of the divine perfection”
“The art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
Burke's description of poetry, quoted from his conversation in Prior's Life of Burke
Undated
Donald Judd, in: American Dialog, Vol. 1-5, (1964), p. ix
1960s
Context: Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all. The one struggle in art is the struggle of artists against artists, of artist against artist, of the artist-as-artist within and against the artist-as- man, -animal, or -vegetable. Artists who claim their artwork comes from nature, life, reality, earth or heaven, as 'mirrors of the soul' or 'reflections of conditions' or 'instruments of the universe', who cook up 'new images of man' - figures and 'nature-in-abstraction' - pictures, are subjectively and objectively, rascals or rustics.
De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) (1440)
“Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. ”
To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 37