Ernst Fischer quotes

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
-- Ernst Fischer

Source : Ernst Fischer, Anna Bostock (1978). “The necessity of art: a Marxist approach”, Puffin

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“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”
-- Ernst Fischer

Source : Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.”
-- Ernst Fischer

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“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

“Even God cannot change the past.”

Source : In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b

“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.”

“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”

“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”

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