Display Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and…

— Clement Greenberg

I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.

— Vik Muniz

However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose…

— William Shenstone

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is…

— Bridget Riley

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at…

— Henri Matisse

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

— Jil Sander

Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And…

— Gottlob Frege

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

— Nathan Milstein

In a perfect world, art and commerce, I think, could be in vacuums and coexist in full purity.

— Jack Conte

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in…

— Kazimir Malevich

“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty