Lawren Harris Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Adventure, Risk

• Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavour in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts.

  Lawren Harris

  Country, Art, Real

  "The best of the Group of Seven".

• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

  Lawren Harris

  Life, Art, Long

• Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Moving, Degrees

• Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Vision, Eternal Life

• Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Men, Soul

• The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Tests, Truth Is

• We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Would Be, Tradition

• The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Stress, Perfect

• I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.

  Lawren Harris

  Lonely, Art, Future

• Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.

  Lawren Harris

  Beautiful, Art, Plato

• So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Nature, Moving

• Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Creative, Decision

• For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Art

• I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Character, Acceptance

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