Arrangements Quote by Robert Motherwell

“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art”

— Lawrence Durrell

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

— Meyer Schapiro

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and…

— Harold Rosenberg

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that…

— Clive Bell

“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the…

— Walter Pater

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,

— Dana Gioia

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform…

— Olivo Barbieri