1909 · Skopia

Showing 14 works across all media from 1909

Genre painting · Fauvism

The Dance (Matisse)

Henri Matisse

1909 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Five figures wheel in a ring against blue and green, reduced to three colors and the strain of holding hands at speed.

★ 8.5

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood.

W.E.B. Du Bois

1909

★ 7.0

Poem

We need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1909

★ 6.9

Spiritual

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Fisk Jubilee Singers

1909

Willis, a Choctaw freedman, wrote it, and the Fisk quartet's 1909 Victor disc now sits in the National Recording Registry.

★ 6.8

Play · Comedy (play)

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

1909

★ 6.1

Landscape · Cubism

Little Harbor in Normandy

Georges Braque

1909 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Boats and masts broken into tilting green and brown planes, painted while Braque and Picasso were building Cubism out of Cézanne.

★ 5.2

Newspaper

I have got such a bully pulpit!

Theodore Roosevelt

1909

★ 3.8

Autobiography and memoir

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Henry Ford

1909

★ 3.6

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

John Jay Chapman

1909

★ 3.5

Essay · Legal writing

Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

G.K. Chesterton

Tremendous Trifles · 1909

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft · 1909

★ 1.9

Novel

Ah, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!

Andre Gide

1909

★ 1.8

Anti-colonial literature

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

1909

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft · 1909

★ 1.0