Being That Can Be Understood Is Language.

The Real Being Of Language Is That Into Which We Are Taken Up When We Hear It - What Is Said.

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.

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.

History Does Not Belong To Us; We Belong To It.

From Gadamer I Learned That To Understand A Given Thinker Requires One To Presuppose That He Is Right.