Ernest Fenollosa Born : February 18, 1853 Died : September 21, 1908 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Ernest Fenollosa It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist. Ernest Fenollosa poetry mistake art A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things. Ernest Fenollosa cutting eye doe All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning. Ernest Fenollosa lightning flash type
