
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
§5.2
Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”
essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", in Sister Outsider
Lawrence Weiner. "Declaration of Intent" (1968); cited in: Lucy R. Lippard (1973). Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. p. xvii
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 80.
“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.