"On Genius and Common Sense" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) American politician
Cap. X - Bay of Pigs: On March 31, 1961 Senator Fulbright gave to Secretary of State Dean Rusk a three-page memorandum strongly against the invasio).
A Thousand Days:John F.Kennedy in the White House (1965)
“Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"An interview with James Baldwin" (1961)
Context: You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
“If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.”
Tarik Gunersel (1953) Turkish actor
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“How free from every thing like art were the reasonings and language of Christ.”
David Thomas (born 1813) (1813–1894) 19th-century Welsh preacher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 63.
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) expressionist painter
Vol. 1: 'My beautiful One, My Unique!', pp. 130-140
1895 - 1905, Lettres à un Inconnu, 1901 – 1905; Museo Communale, Ascona
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter
Source: * The New York Exhibition of Independent Artists ** The Craftsman ** 1910 ** https://books.google.com/books?id=Af84fBmzmVYC&pg=PA423&lpg=PA423&dq=Art+cannot+be+separated+from+life.#v=onepage&q=Art%20cannot%20be%20separated%20from%20life.&f=false.
Tracey Thorn (1962) English singer and songwriter
On the Everything but the Girl album Amplified Heart in “TRACEY THORN ON THE HIT FACTORY” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/tracey-thorn in Interview Magazine (2010 May 13)
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IV, Section 33, p. 209
“It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
