“Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.” FactsStrengthColorPaintingSpiteEtcStrongestCompositionArrangementsInevitabilitySouvenirs Book:Robert Rauschenberg Source: Robert Rauschenberg
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.” WorldIdeasFactsTodayEmotionDivineIllusionUnconsciousStrongestReligion Today Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold