3+ Ernest Fenollosa Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Ernest Fenollosa quotes and sayings.

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

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning. — 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