“LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.” MenHumansHas BeensTwoNamesSupportPiecesSonSkillsScriptureEnormousArtisticPriestsOld ManMasteryFoldsBrutesDiligenceRepresentingIllustrationSerpentInertiaLadAntiquesHuman Intelligence Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.” Has BeensStatesPrinciplesPerfectionProductionsArtisticBeing WrongIrregularity Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.” PeopleHumansHas BeensMatterWholeFormFoundCasesCreationActivityCapacityBasesMethodArtisticProductiveConventionsAestheticOriginalityHuman HistoryHuman ActivityInterchange Author:John Zachary Young
“The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.” Has BeensImportantDifferentCertainCultureProcessInspireNormalRelationMythArtisticReverse Author:Asger Jorn