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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so read more
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and read more
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality read more
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a read more
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
