March 2011
17 posts
“Every style represented the maximum bestowal of happiness for the humanity that...”
– Abstraction And Empathy A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer
“Every style represented the maximum bestowal of happiness for the humanity that...”
– Abstraction And Empathy A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer
“At all times art proper has satisfied a deep psychic need, but not the pure...”
– Abstraction And Empathy A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer
“Rigel was the first to introduce into the method of art historical investigation...”
– Abstraction And Empathy A Contribution to the Psychology of Styleby Wilhelm Worringer
“Whereas the earlier aesthetic operated with pleasure and unpleasure, Lipps gives...”
– Abstraction And Empathy
A Contribution to the Psychology of Styleby Wilhelm Worringer
“The Simplest formula that expresses this kind of aesthetic experience runs:...”
– Abstraction And Empathy A Contribution to the Psychology of Styleby Wilhelm Worringer
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“My idea of literature is something more spontaneous, more cohesive, something...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
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“What is the most important quality a novelist has to have? It’s pretty obvious:...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
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“In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
“What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the...”
– - Berenice Abbott
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a...”
– Berenice Abbott
“A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a...”
– Berenice Abbott, Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology by Nathan Lyons (Editor) , Page: 21
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“I might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
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“I might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
“For me, running is both exercise and metaphor. Running day after day, piling up...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
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“By running longer it’s like I can physically exhaust that portion of my...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
“In the novelist’s profession, as far as I’m concerned, there is no such thing as...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
February 2011
15 posts
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“If, by reason of the helplessness of language, one is forced to search for...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“Cezanne’s sensibility was so tensely alert that there is no hint of the...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“And Water-color was developed by Cezanne in a very new and personal way. He...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“The actual objects presented to the artist’s vision art first deprived of...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“It is in the still-life that we frequently catch the purest self-revelation of...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“For one cannot deny that Cezanne gave a new character to his still-lifes....”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“For at bottom this strange man, who seemed in life to be of an exasperation...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“He (Cezanne) had too many things to bring out of his imagination, things of...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“Cezanne appears less wilful; he is working under a less feverish inner tension....”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“It is in his color that we must look, perhaps, for the most fundamental quality...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
“One cannot doubt that little by little he had to admit to himself that he did...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“For Manet’s imagination was purely visual. There was nothing visionary...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“We must imagine him (Cezanne) at this stage profoundly convinced of the...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
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“More happily endowed and more integral personalities have been able to express...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
“For Him( Cezanne), as I understand his work, the ultimate synthesis of a design...”
– Cezanne: a Study of His Development by Fry, Roger
July 2010
40 posts
“The deep structure in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon turned out to reside in...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“Jung constructed his analysis by comparing certain of Picasso’s paintings...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“In Einstein’s 1905 papers, aesthetic arguments reappeared with a force...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“Just as Poincare began his famous 1908 introspection with the problem, ”...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“Poincare himself believed in a commonality of creative faculties between artists...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“The group (La bande à Picasso) significantly included Maurice Princet, whose...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“The painter’s studio should be a laboratory. There one does not make art...”
– Pablo Picasso
“To understand what constitutes high creativity, we need a theory of the dynamics...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“Analytical cubism.. was able to reduce the representation of objects to their...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“For Picasso, painting was like the air he breathed; it was something he was born...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“One seldom speaks of “tastes” in science, but Einstein’s...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“Although Poincare believed in a close connection between experimental data and...”
– Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
“At that time our work was a kind of laboratory research from which every...”
– Picasso
“There are.. two kinds of artists and poets. Although the first sort produce...”
– <Einstein, Picasso —Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc>
“In the same spirit as ‘La bande a Picasso’, Solovine recalled...”
– talking about “Olympia Academy’s bohemianism” in the book < Einstein, Picasso>
“The inputs to your cortex are all basically alike. Again, you probably think of...”
– <On intelligence> Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee
“To me, sight, hearing, and touch seem very different. They have fundamentally...”
– <On intelligence> Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee
“All anatomists at that time, and for decades prior to Mountcastle, recognized...”
– <On intelligence> Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee