"If we view a great mountain soaring into……" — Lawren Harris
"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 something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience."
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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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Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final…
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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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