Art Quote by Stephen Gardiner Download Open image “In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.” — Stephen Gardiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Concepts Dominant Japanese art Position Space
I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. — Gene Clark Copy Share Image
Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum leap. It… — OSHO Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I have been very influenced by the Japanese concept of space - the preciousness of space, and how one's environment can be shaped to… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share
I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“One of the major insights of Zen is that the world should be perceived directly, not as an array of embodied names.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image