January 2011
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“Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was...”
– W.H. Auden
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“It was not my aim that he should feel anything. I only wanted to impose the...”
– Albert Speer, comments on his building/design of the Nuremberg Stadium
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“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. Fascism, as...”
– Walter Benjamin
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“the atmosphere of the times, all fire and fever, tumultuous, lyrical,...”
– catalogue excerpt for cultural fair in Rome to glorify the Fascist Revolution
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“During the famine, let the avant-garde theatres live on their enthusiasm! We...”
– Rodchenko
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“Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin:
an art bronze,
oil portraits,...”
– Rodchenko
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“There have never been such good dummes, suck ‘em till you’re old.”
– Rodchenko
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“Anyone who is not a sharehold of DOBROLET is not a citizen of the USSR.
Down...”
– Rodchenko
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“Non objective painting is the street itslef, the squares, the towns, and the...”
– Aleksandr Rodchenko
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“Art is a powerful means of infecting those around us with ideas, feelings and...”
– Anatoly Lunacharsky
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“How terribly we need to fight against this pernicious intelligibility, take any...”
– Natan Altman
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“Cubism, Futurism and Suprematism were not understood. These artists cast aside...”
– Kazimir Malevich
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“‘Create new forms of expressionism’ -that was the slogan that...”
– Otto Dix
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“My aim is to understood by everyone. I reject the ‘depth’ that...”
– George Grosz
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“The highest art will be the one which in its conscious content presents the...”
– Berlin Dada Manifesto
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“This morning i visited the place where the streetcleaners dump the rubbish. My...”
– Vincent Van Gogh, The Hague
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“Every word that is spoken and sung here, represents at least this one thing:...”
– Hugo Ball
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“I had no love for the death’s-head hussars,
Nor for the mortars with...”
– Hugo Ball
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“Repelled by the slaughterhouses of the world war, we turned to art. We searched...”
– Jean Arp
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“I am no longer an artist. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men...”
– Paul Nash
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“The sand of the desert is sodden red, -
Red with the wreck of a square that...”
– Sir Henry Newbolt, Vitai lampada (The Torch of Life)
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“Those long uneven lines
Standing as patiently
As though they were stretched...”
– MCMXIV, Philip Larkin
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