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“The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.”

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Hilton Kramer, born on March 25, 1928, was an influential American art critic. His career began in the 1950s, and he served as the editor of Art News magazine, which had a significant impact on the art world. more

“Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.”

Men Wells Art Soul Hands Artist Fields Source Deeper Artistic My Sympathy

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”

Art Form Artist Goal Mastery Adapting

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.”

Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

“Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.”

Art Form Design Color Draws Paint

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.”

Art Made Artist Choices Effects Painting Materials Depends Technique Combination Tone Accuracy Choices Made

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.”

Art Problem Achieve Balance Art Is Objectives Subjective

Author:Piet Mondrian

“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.”

Thinking Giving Trying Looks Littles Art House Forget Tree Fields Objects Color Scene Shapes Blue Paint Impression Squares Yellow Naive Streaks

Author:Claude Monet

“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.”

Life Art Artist Individual Ability Steps Perspective Excellence Individuality Winner Works Of Art Canvas Masterpiece

Author:Denis Waitley

“Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.”

Art Possibility Jazz Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Barbara Januszkiewicz

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