24 result(s) for Gaston Bachelard Quotes On Art And Space.
"The house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories, and dreams of mankind."
"Our house is our corner of the world. As has often been said, it is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word."
"Before he can be set in our childhood home, furniture has first to be placed in our memories."
"For our house is our corner of the world. It is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word."
"Thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has cellars and attics, nooks and corridors, we have these memory-images at our disposal."
"Through images, the imagination sets the boundaries of the world."
"The phenomenological study of a house constitutes an exercise in psychological analysis."
Can't find the quotes you're looking for?
"The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
"A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability."
"Sometimes our house is so vast that we do not know it entirely. When it appears to us in this way, it is less a dwelling than a space in which to lose oneself."
"The poetic image is not subject to proof."
"The house is a space that bears witness to the habits of its dwellers and houses their memories."
"The workshops of art, like those of nature, are full of fire."
"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth."
"The past remains alive, for the houses that we were born in are dreams."
"The house is a privileged entity for a phenomenological study of the intimate values of inside space, provided, of course, that we take it in its totality."
"Thus the house is not only the locus of our memories, but also a monument to our dreams."
"The human being is not the passive observer of the evolution of his being, but its most active creator."
"The inhabited house lies midway between dream and reality."
"We are never real unless we are dreaming."
"A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space."
Can't find the quotes you're looking for?
"The image offered us by the word has undergone an abstraction. It has become a concept."
"The nest, only built, not inhabited, is a figure of pure space."
"All really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home."
