Ernst Fuchs quotes

Ernst Fuchs quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.”
-- Ernst Fuchs

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“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”
“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”
“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”
“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”
“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”
“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”

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