Richard Flecknoe quotes

Richard Flecknoe quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!”
-- Richard Flecknoe

Source : 'Miscellania' (1653)

#Art Quotes #Silence Quotes #Flood Quotes

“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010
“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.”
“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”
“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.”
“In the end itâ€™s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we donâ€™t.”
“There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.”
“Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.14, Counterpoint Press
“The world was floods above and fire below”
“Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!”

Source : 'Miscellania' (1653)

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