“Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression…”
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Karl Marx 290
German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and … 1818–1883Related quotes

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Original text:
Agli artisti giovani d'Italia!
Il grido di ribellione che noi lanciamo, associando i nostri ideali a quelli dei poeti futuristi, non parte già da una chiesuola estetica, ma esprime il violento desiderio che ribolle oggi nelle vene di ogni artista creatore.
Source: 1910, Manifesto of Futurist Painters', Feb. 1910, p. 24: Lead paragraph

An essay on aesthetics (1909) from Vision and design by Roger fry, Forgotten Books , 2012
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Statement to his friend Pierre Alechinsky, between 1965-1970; as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 115
1959 - 1973, Various sources