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Art Is Quotes by Lawren Harris
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all…
- We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.
More Art Is Quotes
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. — Christian Bale
- The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. — Lester Bangs
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
- Art is an attempt to integrate evil. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect… — Beck
- Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell