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" I
don't think art comes from art. A lot of artists apparently think so. I think it comes
from the awakening person. Awakening is what you m ay call spiritual. It is a linkage to
something flowing very rapidly through the air, and I can put my finger on it and plug in,
so to speak...
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Do artists need a spiritual way or do they need art? You can say that one is the same as
the other. Everything tends towards awakening, and I would rather use the word awakening
than a word deriverd from some system- because there are many systems."
Isamu Noguchi |
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"Contrary
to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind
theirs."
Edgar Varese |
"Art does
not reproduce the visible,rather, it makes visible."
Paul Klee |
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" Art is
the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of the flowers- and never
succeeding"
Marc Chagall |
"Among
the language of the American Indians, there is no word for "art"..For Indians,
everything is art..therefore needs no name."
Jamake Highwater |
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"For
Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it"
Jamake Highwater |
" There
are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot,but there are others who with the help
of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun"
Pablo Picasso
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The artist doesn't see things
as they are, but as he is.
Anonymous |
" We all
know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth
that is given us to understand"
Pablo Picasso
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Art then, is that which gives
pure emotion...which invites to neither virtue nor patriotism, nor debauch, nor peace, nor
war, nor laughter, nor tears, nor anything but art itself.
Goethe |
As a painter, I become more lucid
when confronted by nature.
Cezanne |
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is
no art.
Leonardo da Vinci |
It is easier to understand a nation by listening to its
music than by learning its language.
Anonymous |