“Art is recuperation
from time. I lie back
convalescing upon the prospect
of a harvest already at hand.”
"Pissaro: Kitchen Garden, Trees in Bloom", p. 41
Between Here and Now (1981)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 91e
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Theodor W. Adorno book Minima Moralia
Kunst ist Magie, befreit von der Lüge, Wahrheit zu sein.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 143
Minima Moralia (1951)
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964 (1971)
George Eliot book Felix Holt, the Radical
Verse heading up the start of Chapter 11 (at page 111)
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
“Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.”
Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 216 (2003)
“I often wonder if I've already died,
Or if the 'I' is an unintelligible lie”
Cardiff Giant.
Ten Stories
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
Source: Collected Poems (1966), p. 20