“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.” MenTwoIdeasEndsUniverseAnimalPiecesPossibilityIntellectualIntellectSensesContradictionCentreTornEverlasting Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.” IfsArtEndsRealityArtistDegreesOddAssumptionUnconsciousContradictionConversesDichotomyLayman Author:Robert Motherwell
“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.” IfsMadeEndsAcceptingImpossibleOvercomingContradictionImpossibility Author:Czeslaw Milosz