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.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Art, Which, Viewer, Primary
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
Education, Aesthetic, Clear, Forms
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Process, Through, Which, Self-Evident
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Focus, Mirror, Subjectivity, Distorting
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Living, More, Thus, Operation
Nothing exists except through language.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Nothing, Through, Except, Exists
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Fact, Belong, Does, In Fact
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