Ernst Gombrich

19 Briardale Gardens, London NW3 7PN, United Kingdom.

 

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"Art is long and life is short." That famous saying was coined more than 2,000 years ago by Hippocrates, the founder of Greek medicine, and subsequent developments have proved him right. For the "art" to which he refers is the art of healing that has indeed been long in growing and developing and, in the process, incidentally, made life gradually a little less short. In his period and long after, the notion of art denoted any skill based on knowledge; in other words, both what we now call "science," and what we call "art."

It may not be inappropriate to recall these origins in a journal that has set itself the aim of bridging the rift ... Leer más »

Hermann Hesse

Caja de pinturas de Hesse
Foto: Isa Hesse
© Heiner Hesse, Arcegno



"Para toda la aflicción, que con frecuencia era insoportable, encontré una salida cuando empecé a dibujar y a pintar, cosa que jamás había hecho en la vida. Una cosa es que esto tenga objetivamente valor; para mí es una nueva inmersión en el consuelo del arte, que apenas podía darme ya la poesía. Es darse sin avidez, amar si deseo".
De una carta a Felix Braun, 1917

"Mis pequeñas acuarelas son una especie de poesías o sueños, sólo proporcionan un lejano recuerd ... Leer más »