#his

Magical activity is a kind of dynamo supplying the mechanisms of practical life with the emotional current that drives it. Hence, magic is a necessity of every sort and condition of man, and is actually found in every healthy society. ↗

— Herbert Read

#art

The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man. In his statement he emphasized that the act of choice was sufficient to justify it as a creative art. Placing it in such a way that its normal use was disguised caused a new reality for the object to be invented. To the criticism that it was rude he replied, logically enough,"How could this object be acceptable when displayed in a plumber's shop window and yet be immoral anywhere else? ↗

— Neville Weston

#art

Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter. ↗

— Neville Weston

#art

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit. ↗

— Alex Shakar

#history #art

It was late, I was drunk, you were warm to my hand, I would say, please don’t leave, touch me there, but you never I was late, you were drunk, it was warm to my hand, I would want, just to please, you were there, but I never I was warm, you were late, it was drunk to my touch, I was just late to want, but I would leave you never ↗

— Robyn Art

#robyn-art #art

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost arts preserved by a devoted people only in poetry and romance? ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#history #poetry #romance #art

Is there a Swedish Modernism? ↗

— Cecilia Widenheim

#modernism #sweden #art

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life. ↗

— Kuo Pao Kun

#artist #artwork #country #history #tradition

As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the attitude of the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a "science" of meaningful coincidences. The classical Chinese texts did not ask what causes what, but rather what "likes" to occur with what. ↗

— M.L. von Franz

#jung #jungian #man-and-his-symbols #synchronicity #attitude

Have you been smoking something? Seriously, I think you're a werewolf. This new snarky attitude is a dead giveaway." "And vampires aren't snarky?" Kylie rolled her eyes. "No, we're pissy. Snarky and pissy are two totally different things. ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#attitude