“The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.” ArtBecomingArt IsCapacityTransformationEndlessImmortalityTimelessness Author:Lewis Mumford
“Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.” LooksArtDifferentDreamLyingArt IsCapacityMirrorsExpensiveScandalous Author:Michael Kimmelman
“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.” ArtStillsReasonUsedVoiceBeautyUnited StatesToo MuchHavensArt IsCapacityEarsHotelStationsAdmirationPalacesSplendorRailwayMagnificenceSmall VoiceRailway Station Book:The Bent Twig Source: The Bent Twig
“If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.” PeopleIfsMenArtStillsImportantWould BeHe ManActivitySpeechArt IsCapacityBeastSavagesHostileWild Beasts Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.” ArtDifferentPhilosophyFormUnderstandingDifferencesArt IsCapacityMathematicsContemporaryDifferent Things Author:Robert Longo
“The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.” MenChildrenArtPlayMomentsUseFunAnimalSourceArt IsCapacityToolsProductionsUniquenessHuntersCavesCeilingsUnfoldingPlaygroundsOptimalCreativenessMilieuMural Author:Eric Hoffer