
Diary entry (December 1904), # 583, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
1903 - 1910
essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
Diary entry (December 1904), # 583, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
1903 - 1910
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State.”
The Art of War, Chapter I · Detail Assessment and Planning
Context: The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
कला र जीवन (Art and Life)
Art and Life
Context: I think human arts depend on the imaginative truths. The straight forward illustration of practicality cannot take the form of Art, not is photography any Art in my opinion.
“If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.”
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.”
The New Gods (1969)
“For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).”
1950 - 1960
Source: 'Editions du Regard', January 1952, p.13; as quoted in 'A monograph', M. Whittall, London,Thames & Hudson, 2005ns du Regard. p. 9
“Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 18
“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest PHilosophers (1926), reprinted in Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, 1991, ISBN 0-671-73916-6], Ch. II: Aristotle and Greek Science; part VI: Psychology and the Nature of Art: "Artistic creation, says Aristotle, springs from the formative impulse and the craving for emotional expression. Essentially the form of art is an imitation of reality; it holds the mirror up to nature. There is in man a pleasure in imitation, apparently missing in lower animals. Yet the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance; for this, and not the external mannerism and detail, is their reality.
Richard Long: Books, Prints, Printed Matter. Exhib cat New York Public Library, New York 1994
1990s