Coherence Quote by Walker Evans

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share…

— Jean Helion

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

— Richard Whately

What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors…

— Clive Bell

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation.…

— Oscar Wilde

When you can't see you become very timid about space and moving. You become less aggressive and less tenacious. Lots of things that shouldn't…

— David Berman

...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant…

— Minor White

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

— John Ruskin

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of…

— Idries Shah

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something…

— Clement Greenberg

To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the…

— Carrie Brownstein

It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number…

— Paolo Pellegrin

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore