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One Quotes by Ernst Gombrich
- One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands…
- One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
- It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the…
- The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability…
- All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but…
- The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt