"Abstract art is a creative interplay between the……" — Lawren Harris
"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."
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30 Quotes by Lawren Harris
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Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.
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Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
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Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
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Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a…
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Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in…
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Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual…
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For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
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The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once…
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Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence…
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I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know…
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It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must…
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It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and…
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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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