There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able t...o recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the... present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must always distinguish two faculties in the life of man: intellect and sensibility. Intellect begins with the observation of n...ature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science. Sensibility, on the other hand, is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses. But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »