“What is art but the denial of life?”
Ibid., p. 174
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Que é a arte senão a negação da vida?
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Source: Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work, 1966, p. 202
1960s, "Oral history interview with Donald Judd," 1965
Context: I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. I think most of us in one way or another are involved in ideas of a fairly loose world, however it's expressed, whether obviously as in Chamberlain or just accidentally, or, oh, like Newman.
La science de la mère comporte des mérites silencieux, ignorés de tous, sans parade, une vertu en détail, un dévouement de toutes les heures.
Part I, ch. XLV.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
“Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.”
Source: The Christmas Box
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), p. 155
Vegn vos Firn op fun Yidishkeit, 1911. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 372.
"Betrayals", p. 1; first published in Blue Motel (1994)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)