Art Quote by Neville Weston

““The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.””

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“The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man. In his statement he emphasized that the act of choice was sufficient to justify it as a creative art. Placing it in such a way that its normal use was disguised caused a new reality for…

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“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.”

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“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the…

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“Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching”

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“[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.”

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“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing…

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“The English artist likes line more than color or texture.”

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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