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" I
don't think art comes from art. A lot of artists apparently think so. I think it comes
from the awakening person. Awakening is what you m ay call spiritual. It is a linkage to
something flowing very rapidly through the air, and I can put my finger on it and plug in,
so to speak...
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Do artists need a spiritual way or do they need art? You can say that one is the same as
the other. Everything tends towards awakening, and I would rather use the word awakening
than a word deriverd from some system- because there are many systems."
Isamu Noguchi |
"Contrary
to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind
theirs."
Edgar Varese |
"Art does
not reproduce the visible,rather, it makes visible."
Paul Klee |
" Art is
the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of the flowers- and never
succeeding"
Marc Chagall |
"Among
the language of the American Indians, there is no word for "art"..For Indians,
everything is art..therefore needs no name."
Jamake Highwater |
"For
Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it"
Jamake Highwater |
" There
are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot,but there are others who with the help
of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun"
Pablo Picasso |
The artist doesn't see things
as they are, but as he is.
Anonymous |
" We all
know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth
that is given us to understand"
Pablo Picasso |
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In
human affairs, aesthetic forms comes into being when traditions exist that, strong and
abiding like mountains are made pleasing by a lucid beauty. By contemplating the forms
existing in the heavens, we come to understand time and its changing demands. Through
contemplation of the forms, it becomes possible to shape the world.
I-Ching. Hexagram #22, Grace |
Art then, is that which gives
pure emotion...which invites to neither virtue nor patriotism, nor debauch, nor peace, nor
war, nor laughter, nor tears, nor anything but art itself.
Goethe |
As a painter, I become more lucid
when confronted by nature.
Cezanne |
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is
no art.
Leonardo da Vinci |
It is easier to understand a nation by listening to its
music than by learning its language.
Anonymous |
