What is it about people that since the dawn of time we've wanted to mark our presence so that other people will see it?

Chuck Close

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Topic

Sources of art Art Human nature

Speaker

Chuck Close

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

United States

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Citation

Close, Chuck. Quoted in Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere. Random House, 1998. Originally spoken during an interview with Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasions for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Discourses on Livy

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Topic
Political theory Government Human nature

Author

Niccolo Machiavelli
Source
Discourses on Livy
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
Italian
Time
1531 1530s 16th century
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Original Citation

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio [Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy]. Papal Privilege, 1531, bk. 1, ch. 3

Current Citation

Machiavelli, Niccolo. Discourses on Livy, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 3.