
Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 106, note 59
Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)
Interview with Anna Tilroe, 1987; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: on 'Abstract paintings' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/subjects-2/abstract-paintings-7
1980's
Source: The function of interpretation in psychotherapy. 1959, p. 21
Speech (3 January 1834), quoted in Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1999), p. 256
Context: True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate, just as national sovereignty is above the secondary agreements of the government.
As quoted in "Paris (1897-1904)", and in The Mother on Art http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/Content.aspx?ContentURL=/_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-02%20the%20mother/the%20mother%20as%20an%20artist/-05%20mother%20on%20art.htm
“Music, or any art form… has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity”
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Context: When a musical piece is too simple we tend not to like it, finding it trivial. When it is too complex, we tend not to like it, finding it unpredictable—we don't perceive it to be grounded in anything familiar. Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity...
As quoted in Music in History : The Evolution of an Art (1957) by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, p. 640
As quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 69
Variant: The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
“When I hear the term Right wing I think of Hitler and Satan and Civil war.”
Source: Journals (2002), p. 259