Wednesday, February 04, 2009

...on "style"

"To 'communicate' a state, an inner tension of pathos through signs, including the tempo of these signs - that is the meaning of every style ...Every style is 'good' which actually communicates an inner state, which makes no mistake as to signs, the tempo of signs, the 'gestures' etc....instinct is here infallible." Friedrich Nietzsche

"One's sensibility, that is one's genius." Charles Baudelaire

"Art is the reverse of general ideas in that it describes only the particular, wants only the unique. It does not classify, it declassifies." Marcel Schwob

"Personal Art - and that is the only art - is always incomprehensible. If it is understood it ceases to be Art to become a subject for new artistic expressions." Remy de Gourmont