“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?” MindTogetherArtistEnergyLinesEffectsColorPaintingDepthDetailsSurfaceArisePlanesIntensitySerenityVolumeCompositionSpectatorsCalmnessReposeBeing Together Author:Eli Siegel
“The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.” MindArtistPaintCanvasSpectators Author:Okakura Kakuzo
“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.” WayShouldFirstsMadeArtistFeltSimpleUnderstoodSimplicityDetailsSpectatorsSuperfluousEliminationBeholderMotifsSimple Ways Author:Alfred Sisley
“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.” ActionArtistProcessClearPaintingCommunicationDrawingVisualsMechanicSculptureSpectators Book:Drawing and Sculpture Source: Drawing and Sculpture
“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.” ShouldArtIdeasArtistPiecesMagicProducePaintingInternalsSubmitVulgarDistrustSpectatorsIdentical Author:Samuel R. Delany
“The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.” ArtistDevelopmentBirthPhasesIndifferentSpectatorsImpassioned Author:Max Ernst