Jean Rousset quotes

“Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality”
-- Jean Rousset

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“Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality”
-- Jean Rousset

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“The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.”
-- Jean Rousset

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“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.”

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”

“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.”

“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”

“A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.”

“There's no substitute for guts.”

“Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.”

Source : "Bidzina Ivanishvili: the eccentric billionaire chasing Georgia's leadership" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

“When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.”

“There is no substitute for a militant freedom.”