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“The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.”

Humans Artist Divine Reader Ethics Series Complexes Critics Innocence Just One Architect Confrontation Illustrating Innocence And Experience

Author:John Scott

“In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.”

Children Artist Pure Innocence True Artists

Author:Lawren Harris

“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.”

People Should Children Art Said Helping Artist Subjects Discipline Adults Capacity Sacred Conviction Innocence Irrational Art Education Baudelaire

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.”

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Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.”

Way Artist Creative Strange Pursue Mysterious Innocence Unconscious Mysterious Ways

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers