Lawren Harris Quotes

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• Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.
• Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
• Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
• 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…
• 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.
• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the…
• For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
• The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him…
• Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony -…
• 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…
• It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient,…
• It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds…
• Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.
• If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of…
• 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 is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a…
• Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something…
• In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
• 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…

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