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“The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.”

Persons Artist Perception Training Experts

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Feelings Artist Wish Painting Perception Observation Atmosphere Register

Author:Lucian Freud

“The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.”

Whole Artist Interest Fields Perception Highest Details

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.”

Art Artist Ability Perception Paint Perceive Brushes Palette

Author:Dean Mitchell

“Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.”

Artist Order Force Challenges Type Perception Chaos Site Good Art Good Artist

Author:Wolf Kahn

“An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.”

Men World Artist Design Perception Paint Prophet Makers Reporters Entertainers Craftsman Seers Contamination

Author:Morris Graves

“The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.”

Reason Artist Special Elements Perception Opposites Impression Objectives Tendencies

Book:An Outline of Philosophy

Source: An Outline of Philosophy

“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)”

People Needs Wells Persons Important Feelings Artist Common Cutting Normal Perception Empathy Praise Observation Chains Frost Thoughts And Feelings Hornets

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.”

Has Beens Artist Goal Perception Innovation Visuals Motivated Aesthetic Criteria Procedures Presenting Visual Perception

Author:David Galenson

“You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.”

Artist Mystery Planets Perception

Author:Anthony Davis