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“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.”

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Author:Katherine Paterson

“The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self.”

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Book:The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Source: The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

“Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.”

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Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.”

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Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.”

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Author:Russell Sherman

“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.”

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Author:Herbert Read

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead