Miss Stein is bringing back life to our language by what appears, at first, to be an anarchic process. First she breaks down the predestined groups of words, their sleepy family habits; then she rebrightens them, examines their texture, and builds them into new and vital shapes.
—Edith Sitwell, Poetry and Criticism (Hogarth Essays No.11, Hogarth Press, 1925)
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no art, only artists
There is no such thing as art...There are only artists who are favoured with a gift of balancing shapes and colours until they get it right. And, rarer still, who possess the integrity of character which never rests content with half solutions, but is ready to forgo all easy effects, all superficial success for the toil and agony of sincere work.
—E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art (1950)
—E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art (1950)
body forth
We body forth our ideals in personal acts, either alone or with others in society. We body forth felt experience in a poem’s image and sound. We body forth our inner residence in the architecture of our homes and common buildings. We body forth our struggles and our revelations in the space of theatre. That is what form is: the bodying forth. The bodying forth of the living vessel in the shapes of clay.
—M.C. Richards, Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person (Wesleyan U. Press, 1969)
—M.C. Richards, Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person (Wesleyan U. Press, 1969)
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