(…)that the essential difference between a book and a friend is not their degree of greatness of wisdom, but the manner in which we communicate with them, reading, contrary to conversation, consisting for each of us in receiving the communication of another thought, but while we remain all alone, that is to say, while continuing to enjoy the intellectual power we have in solitude, and which conversation dissipates immediately, while continuing to be inspired, to maintain the mind’s full, fruitful work on itself.
Descartes: “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries”
Marcel Proust, Sur la lecture (1905)
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Some quotes…
Throughout the history of culture, art has demonstrated that universal beauty does not arise from the particular character of the form, but from the dynamic rythm of its inherent relationships, or -in a composition- from the mutual relation of forms. (Piet Mondrian , 1937)
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Soi sûr d’avoir épuisé tout ce qui se communique par l’immobilité et le silence. (Robert Bresson , 1975)
aoi sûr d’avoir épuisé tout ce qui se communique par l’immobilité et le silence.
El genio es un sino. Una estética se concibe. El oficio se aprende. El oficio comprende, por un lado, la ciencia de la composición y, por otro lado, la técnica de ejecución. Digámoslo claramente: una estética que no dispone de suficientes medios técnicos ve limitada enseguida la concepción a la medida de los medios de realización. Sólo se concibe claramente aquello que puede ejecutarse perfectamente. (A. Ozenfant – Le Corbusier , 1920)
