What did William Carlos Williams mean by: beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. William Carlos Williams Poet · USA Copy
+ Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery. Author, September 4, 2023January 2, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Discovery, Dissonance, Interest, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
+ [History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Imagination, Souls, Tyranny, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
+ My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Identity, Roots, Youth, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
+ A new music is a new mind. Author, October 4, 2023January 2, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Creativity, Innovation, Transformation, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
+ The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Cruelty, Love, Transformation, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
+ The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Dedication, Sacrifice, Stress, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
+ A poem is a small machine made out of words. Author, July 7, 2023January 2, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Craftsmanship, Creativity, Language, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
+ Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time. Author, July 29, 2023January 2, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Change, Knowledge, Relationships, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset