George Maciunas quotes

George Maciunas quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.”
-- George Maciunas

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“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”
“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.”
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”
“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”
“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”
“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com
“I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.”
“The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.”

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