Art Quotes - Page 32

• Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

  Clement Greenberg

  Travel, Eye, Creating

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• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Essence, Understanding

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Things In Life, Creating, Mind

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Blue, Color, Sea

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• It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Light, Strange

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• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  Caravaggio

  Life, Nature, Work

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• And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

  Maya Deren

  Vision, Assuming, Sometimes

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• One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

  Ted Harrison

  Children, Work, Simple

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• Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

  Edvard Grieg

  Music, Home, Men

  Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.36, Mel Bay Publications

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• Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

  Donald Judd

  Powerful, Space, Sculpture

  Donald Judd (2005). “Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints”, Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

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• Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

  Joseph Cornell

  Children, Eye, Firsts

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• We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Photography, Thinking, Ideas

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• You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

  Franz Kline

  Life, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  Barnett Newman

  Expression, Leaving, Painting

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• We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Real, Color, Abstract Painting

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• Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

  Art Wolfe

  Photography, Stopping, Matter

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• Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  Confusion, Purpose, Guidance

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• The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

  Toni Cade Bambara

  African American, Revolution, Novelists

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Poetry, Naked

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 09, 2011

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Men, Order, Perspective

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• The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

  El Lissitzky

  People, World, Way

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• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Music, Creativity

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• We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

  F. Sionil José

  Life, Writing, Literature

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• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Photography, Black And White

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• I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Inspirational, Dance, Communication

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