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“The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.”

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Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.”

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Author:Paul Klee

“What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.”

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Author:Franz Cizek

“A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.”

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Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.”

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Author:Morgan Llywelyn

“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.”

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Author:Sherman Alexie

“All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.”

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Author:Maren Elwood

“We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.”

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Author:Jonas Mekas

“abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.”

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Author:Piet Mondrian

“Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?”

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Author:Brassai

“Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.”

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Author:Leonard Peikoff

“Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.”

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Author:Michele Cassou

“All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.”

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Author:Ernst Gombrich

“You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”

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Author:Anthony Kiedis

“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.”

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Author:Auguste Rodin

“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”

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Author:Emile Zola

“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?”

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Author:May Sarton

“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”

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Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”

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Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.”

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Author:Paul Klee

“I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.”

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Author:E. J. Hughes