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October 2011 - page 2

BACH ~ ON MUSIC

in The Melody of Art by

“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer and musician (1685-1750)


E.M. FORSTER ~ LIFE IS A SPECTACLE

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“I don’t die – I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m not there. You are quite right; life to me is just a spectacle…”

E.M. Forster (1879-1905)

ANDRE BRETON ~ ARE WE LOST IN TIME?

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him – which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”

Andre Breton

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism.

Photo by Man Ray (1930)

FERNANDO BOTERO ~ THE NEED OF ART

in Passion Of Art by

“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there’s more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It’s why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”

FERNANDO BOTERO



JAMES ENSOR ~ ON HIS ART

in Passion Of Art by

“My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.”

— James Ensor

Photo James Ensor and Ernest Rousseau on the beach near Oostende (Belgium) ca. 1892

James Ensor, Masks Confronting Death (1888)

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