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A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
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To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a…
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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
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Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
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The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He…
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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am…
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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
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Our entire being is nourished by color.
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To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary…
— Brian Eno
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
— Max Weber
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Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
— Leon Wieseltier
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I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science,…
— Justus von Liebig
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
— Jean Cocteau
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His…
— Thomas Carlyle
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He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
— Hans Hofmann
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