Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
quote in 1946
As quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 439
1940s
“In Art we know nothing for certain.”
Article - Forming Formalism : The Post Impressionost Exhibition Burlington Magazine 1920
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English artist and art critic 1866–1934Related quotes
“A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing.”
Roger Fry (1866–1934) English artist and art critic
E M Forster -0bituary of Roger Fry ,1940 ,'Biography of RogerFry'by Virginia Wolf , Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York 1940.
Art Quotes
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.”
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Variant: The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Ch. I
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
Pliny the Elder book Natural History
Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certainthat nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.
Book II, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
“Nothing is certain—that is the first lesson.”
Paolo Bacigalupi book The Windup Girl
Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 67