"The truth is that works of art test……" — Lawren Harris
"The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them."
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30 Quotes by Lawren Harris
Lawren Harris has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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