Replace the Judgement

"the development of a science ... involves the establishment of many rules, laws and formulae which replace the judgement of the individual workman ... the workman is told minutely what he is to do and how he is to do it; any improvement which he makes upon the orders given to him is fatal to success."
Frederick Taylor
quoted by J.F. O'Neill

Pablo Picasso - Colombe de la Paix - 1949

Augustin Tschinkel - The Dove of Peace - 1932

via Vision

Hans Schmitz - Die Masse - 1923

via Anastasia Simoniello

Docility

"To me, me personally, here is what meant working in a factory. It meant that all the external reasons (I had believed them internal before) upon which relied the feeling of my own dignity, my self-respect where in two or three weeks radically crushed under the pressure of a brutal and quotidian constraint. And do not believe it raised in me any revolt. No, but on the contrary what I expected least from myself - docility." 

Simone Weil, Lettres à Albertine Thèvenon, 1934-35

Jos Leonard - Man in de Stad - 1912

Piet Mondrian - Le Grand Nu - 1912

Roger de La Fresnaye - Le Jardin, Etude - 1929