
“There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.”
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
"Poetry: A Few Don'ts by an Imagist", Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (March 1913)
“There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.”
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective
J. Hanks, trans. (1985), p. 211
The Humiliation of the Word (1981)
The Law of Mind (1892)
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
Source: "On Gestalt Qualities," 1890, p. 93
Part I : Ambiguity and Freedom http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/ch01.htm
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
Context: At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice doesn’t pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 35 (p. 577)
View by H.R. Prasad quoted in [Critical Response To Indian Poetry In English, http://books.google.com/books?id=4NcHdrqUJpYC&pg=PA11, 1 January 2008, Sarup & Sons, 978-81-7625-825-8, 11–]