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“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.”

People Want Giving Art Ends Born Poor Rich Art Is Brilliant Immortality Pockets Substitutes Museums Closest Shrouds

Author:Damien Hirst

“If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.”

Ifs Want Wells Has Beens Art Shows Form Effort Poet Art Is Musical Crafts Substitutes Mastery Sonnet Fugue

Book:But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

Source: But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

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

Art Creation Art Is Substitutes

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart”

Way Heart Art Running Ordinary Art Is Concepts Destruction Substitutes

Book:sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

“Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself.”

Mean Has Beens Art Real Reason Church Art Is Substitutes Transformed Sole Adequate Transcendent Binding Transcendental Providers Transcending Affording

Author:Gerhard Richter