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“In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.”

Mean Eye Artist Order Beauty Inspire Goodness Tradition Ancient Rome Viewers Greece Captured Ancient Greece Greece And Rome

Author:John Walford

“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.”

Artist Belief Beauty Modern Metaphor Belief Systems Modern Art Dubious Postmodern

Author:John Walford

“Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.”

People Faces Artist Hate Beauty Mets Load Pretty Face Pretty Picture

Author:David Hockney

“Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.”

Artist Beauty Talent Creator Artistic Vocation Artistic Talent

Author:Pope John Paul II

“It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.”

Real Jobs Artist Values Beauty Cases Goodness Aim Real Things Enchanted

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.”

Men Spirit Artist Known Beauty Harmony Severe Semblance Work And Life

Author:Lawren Harris