In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. Hans-Georg Gadamer More Quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer More Quotes From Hans-Georg Gadamer It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance. Hans-Georg Gadamer distance fun art It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. Hans-Georg Gadamer consciousness form historical
