“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.” WorldWayArtBookRealEndsEyeArtistNumbersPiecesPaintingArt IsEdgesDetermineDeterminedBoundariesSubtleReal WorldFrontiers Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon
“An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.” ArtistSexBasesEqualityDeterminedOccupationRecruit Book:Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies Source: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
“not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.” WayMindI CanHandsRememberFormArtistFashionDeterminedMixturesMarbleMy FutureForesightSculptors Author:Freya Stark