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“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

“Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.”

Art Artist Approach Mere Fragile Thread Marvelous Surroundings Melting Elusive Configuration

Author:Allan Kaprow

“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Facts Eye Artist Dies Turns Imagination Mere Details Being True Rumor Celestial

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.”

Sometimes Form Artist Order Objects Mere Representation Spices

Book:Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

Source: Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”

Mind Eye Action Lying Artist White Pure Mere Worn Great Art Great Artist Uneasy Trimming White Lie Prevarication

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.”

Artist Mere Photographer Copiers

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.”

Love Heart Art Feelings Artist Simple Love Is Mere Sensitive Sublime Precaution Withering Simple Words

Author:Honore de Balzac