“As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.” WayMayActionResultsBoysExpertsShyEchoesHarshCompensationUpbringingShyness Author:Gunter Brus
“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.” WorldBelieveDoeSaidArtistOrderBeliefForceWishSharePoetUnderstoodVisionariesProvincesTolerable Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith
“The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to be a complex of symbols that have a profound meaning for the artists themselves.” DoeArtistLanguageStructureProfoundComplexesAcceptedSymbolsCodeEvident Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith
“Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.” ArtistCertainCommonQualityShareObsessionCharacteristics Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith
“The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.” WorldArtistAcceptingResearchMethodDetailsProgressiveUncovering Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith
“When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.” FamiliarSymbolsUsualRevealingImageryEsoteric Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith
“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.” ArtSelfSocialChangeCommunityFunctionPrimariesRedefining Author:Thomas McEvilley
“In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.” EnoughOrderColorBackgroundsColour Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul
“It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.” HappensColorAbsolutesColourExaggerated Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul