Fall Quote by Peter Adamson

For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like…

— Peter Adamson

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to…

— Peter Adamson

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

— Peter Adamson

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they…

— Jean Dubuffet

Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind of representation…

— Peter Adamson

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

— David Bellos

People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of principles, so…

— Peter Adamson

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find…

— Frank Stella

Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears…

— Walter J. Phillips

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled…

— Giorgio Vasari