
Hans Arp's quote on drawing on the black surface; as quoted in Search for the Real, Hans Hofmann, Addison Gallery of modern Art, 1948
1940s
Robert Motherwell, partly quoting Jean Arp, in Motherwell & black (1981) p. 94 -->
Misattributed
Hans Arp's quote on drawing on the black surface; as quoted in Search for the Real, Hans Hofmann, Addison Gallery of modern Art, 1948
1940s
“He who does not love a flower, has lost all love and fear of God.”
Wer keine Blume mehr liebt, dem ist alle Liebe und Gottesfurcht verloren.
"Der Runenberg", from Phantasus (1812-16) http://ftp4.de.freesbie.org/pub/misc/gutenberg-de/1996/gutenb/tieck/runenbrg/runbrg3.htm; translation from Thomas Carlyle German Romance: Specimens of its Chief Authors, (London: Tait, 1827), vol. 2, p. 107.
Source: 1905 - 1910, Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 410
“Void is contract made in fear.”
Fatto per timor, nullo è il contratto.
Canto XXI, stanza 43 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981), p. 207
1980s