- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hypocrisy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
- Fated
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
- Neighbor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020