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“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where…

— Michael Richardson

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of…

— Arthur Wesley Dow

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

— Vincente Minnelli

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a…

— Brice Marden

“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities that Dali…

— George Orwell

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless…

— Arne Glimcher

Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as…

— Octavio Paz

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man…

— Anonymous

Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative…

— Robert Venosa

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose…

— John French Sloan

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and…

— Havelock Ellis