“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.” NeedsDoeArtUseAsksUnderstandingStruggleArt IsCriticsDefeatDefinitionsPhilosopherSatisfactionRageRationalWorks Of ArtTranscendenceSuitableBelittleIneffableIrrepressibleUnderstanding Why Author:Pierre Bourdieu
“I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.” ThinkingDoeArtGrowsGrowthQuietArt IsPlantSilentSelf DiscoverySubtleDiggingDigging Ditches Author:Emily Carr
“Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” LifeDoeArtRomanceLife IsPassionDifferencesLove IsSecretObjectsArt IsLive ByAppetiteRepetitionOne LoveOnly TimeSecret LifeGreat ExperiencesSingleness Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.” DoeArtActionFormArtistBornStruggleCreativeArt IsReleaseImpulseContentmentInner Struggle Author:Eric Gibbons
“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.” LifeDoeArtDreamTruthExpressionLetting GoArt IsSurrenderOur DreamsScornTrue Life Author:Franz Marc
“A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.” HeartDoeArtInspirationPaintingArt IsJuggling Author:Caspar David Friedrich
“What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.” IfsShouldDoeArtArtistLeftProductsActivityArt IsStudiosConclusionLeft Alone Author:Bruce Nauman