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

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Citation

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

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There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

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Topic
Learning from suffering

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Marcel Proust
Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1930 1930s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine diparue; or, La Fugitive [The Fugitive]. A la recherche du temps perdu [In Search of Lost Time]. Grasset, 1925, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time. Vol. 4. Translated by Peter Collier. Penguin, 2021, ch. 1.

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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

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Topic
Painting Purpose of art Art
Speaker
Pablo Picasso
Medium
Interview
Language
French
Time
1945 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso n'est pas officier dans l'armee Francaise," int. Simon Tery. Les Lettres Francaise, vol. 5, issue 48, 24 Mar. 1945, p. 6.

Current Citation

Picasso, Pablo. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, by Alfred H. Barr. Simon and Schuster, 1946.