To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Samuel Beckett

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Purpose of art Art

Author

Samuel Beckett

Source

Proust

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Playwright Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Beckett, Samuel. Proust. Chatto and Windus, 1930.

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The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
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Genre
Psychological literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
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Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.

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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

Pablo Picasso

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Painting Art
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Pablo Picasso
Time
1964 1960s 20th century
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Picasso, Pablo. Quoted in Life with Picasso, written by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. McGraw-Hill, 1964, pt. 6.