Quotes: Bruce Kuwabara

"Like art, great architecture is a transformation of tradition and can change the way we see, experience, and relate to each other and the world. True transformation invites new ways of thinking, creative processes, new forms and expression." 

–– Bruce Kuwabara, Canadian architect 

Source: Akimbo, February 17, 2022, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery announcement, Kingston, Ontario.

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 17.

Quotes: re: Walter Benjamin

"German philosopher Walter Benjamin was an inveterate collector of books. He also tirelessly collected quotations from books in little notebooks with black covers. Quotations became the very center of his written work. They were the way he entered into the vision of another's work and listened to tradition. To Benjamin, to achieve the essential in the quotation was to bring the truth to light." 

–– Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German-born American Jewish writer and political philosopher re: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, essayist

Source: Quote from Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 58. found in Anne West. Mapping: The Intelligence of Artistic Work. 2011. p. 196. 

via: Sketchbook 18, 2012, p. 122.

Quotes 353: Leonard Koren

"Repetition is ... the essence of tradition." 

–– Leonard Koren (b. 1948), American artist, writer, and aesthetics expert

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 120