retro-quotes: a series of germane remarks, by others, plucked from all over the place, and from all over the time # 11111111111
“The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk....
“Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered at will..... The fixed and animally ecstatic gaze of a child confronted with something new.....
"Genius of childhood – a genius for which no aspect of life has become stale...
“The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk....
“Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered at will..... The fixed and animally ecstatic gaze of a child confronted with something new.....
"Genius of childhood – a genius for which no aspect of life has become stale...
“[The modern artist is] a kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness... reproducing the
multiplicity of life and the flickering grace of all the elements of life. He
is an ‘I’ with an insatiable appetite for the ‘non-I’.....
“For any ‘modernity’ to be worthy of one day taking its place as ‘antiquity’, it is necessary for it [to capture its time]....
“For any ‘modernity’ to be worthy of one day taking its place as ‘antiquity’, it is necessary for it [to capture its time]....
"[Modernity is] the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.... Every old master has had his own modernity..."
- Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, 1863
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