Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Artistic expression Art

Author

Henry Ward Beecher

Source

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Clergyman Abolitionist

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United States

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Beecher, Henry Ward. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887.

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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.

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Nature of man The human condition

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Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
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German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Topic
Modern art Power of art Art

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Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.