“Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Laocoön
1800s
“Art, that does all things, never herself displays.”
L'arte, che tutto fa, nulla si scopre.
Canto XVI, stanza 9 (tr. T. B. Harbottle). Cf. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 2.313.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Jean Dubuffet book Prospectus et tous écrits suivants
Source: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 206
“Divinity reveals herself in all things… everything has Divinity latent within itself.”
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
Context: Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle CXIII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
Norman Maclean (1902–1990) American author and scholar
"A River Runs Through It", p. 4
A River Runs Through It (1976)
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
Said to one of his students, according to "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils" by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
Epistle to William Hogarth (July 1763), line 645
Context: With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought:
Constant attention wears the active mind,
Blots out our powers, and leaves a blank behind.