“True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.” MenArtHigherOrdinaryArt Is Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.” PeopleWorldArtIdeasBeautifulFormJoySpiritPerfectResultsCreativeClearRecordsAdventureHigherPureElementsEternalArt IsPlatoJoyousCreative Spirit Author:Lawren Harris
“Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.” ArtUsePurposeArtistDealsFashionObjectsSeriousHigherArt IsSacredSevereEmployed Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.” MenGivingMindArtLawJoyValuesGrowthStudyInfluenceHigherArt IsSightCaughtIntellectEvery ManSensesObservationHintsScrapRefining Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.” ArtStillsKidsCultureCreationPaintingHigherSingingArt IsDancingEverydayPopulationDrawingArtisticIndianDominantPercentagesIndian CultureDominant Culture Author:Sherman Alexie
“People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.” PeopleWellsPersonsArtHardRealityGamesFunUnderstandingHard WorkFineHigherLetting GoSmartArt IsWorldly Author:Jim Woodring
“Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.” IfsWellsLongArtSaidSoulBodySoundHealingDivineHigherCreaturesArt Is Author:Apollonius of Tyana
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.” MenHumansKindMayPersonsArtEndsFormPurposeArtistRealizingHuman BeingsMankindHigherShapesArt IsAimInstrumentsMoodUnconsciousCollectivesCarrieFree WillPsychicsInnateMemories Dreams ReflectionsCollective Unconscious Author:Carl Jung