Arthur Wesley Dow Quotes

• Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.

  Arthur Wesley Dow

  Art, Expression, Creative

  "Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts" by Nancy E. Green and Jessie Poesch, Exhibt Cat., New York, 1999.

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• Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

  Arthur Wesley Dow

  Art, Lying, Choices

  "Talks on the Appreciation of Art". "The Delineator" Magazine, January 1915.

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• Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.
  Realism was the death of art.
  Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

  Arthur Wesley Dow

  Art, Space, Two

  "Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" by Arthur Wesley Dow, Boston, 1899.

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