“Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.” Quote by 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
“For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.” PaintingSuperiorsPainterFlatsMethodology Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul
“Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.” KindDoeLightThreeDarkColorRedAspectIntenseDefinedHueLight Dark Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.
“Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.” TwoFeelingsEffortColorThirdsBlindSatisfyingExhausting Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.
“When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.” WantGivingWholeSeemsHateColorGiving UpPerceptionAspectBlindLike Love Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.
“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.” IfsRealityArtistProcessNaturalAbilityCreativityCreativePossibilityPaintingSucceedElementsCreatingConsciousIndependentCreative ProcessTransformingHintsNatural Phenomena Author:Frantisek Kupka