“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.” SeemsAgeChristianDesireArtistCultureChristianityGenerationsFashionStupidLatePicksTraditionOneselfRelevantSecularShort SightedUnchristian Author:Calvin Seerveld
“In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.” MeanEyeArtistOrderBeautyInspireGoodnessTraditionAncientRomeViewersGreeceCapturedAncient GreeceGreece And Rome Author:John Walford
“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.” WorldMindFormArtistOrderBeautyPrinciplesTakenParticularMaterialsPureShadowIdealsTraditionAbsolutesHarmonyMereInspiredBoundsCosmosIdealismDefectsRepresentingPlatonic Author:John Walford
“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.” ArtInspirationPastArtistIndividualResultsEducationStudyTalentTaughtArt IsTraditionDeny Author:Gustave Courbet
“It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.” WayTryingMadeSeemsArtistTraditionRapMade ItWeirdoRap Artist Author:Quavo
“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.” MindDoneFactsArtistWhitePaintingPureTraditionRootsEmptyMethodEmbraceStartingFlyingSpotsEmptinessRealisingStrokesBrushesPenetrateSpontaneityApparitions Author:Antoni Tapies
“It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.” SometimesHardArtistBeliefTradition Author:Hisham Matar
“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.” TryingSchoolFormArtistLosesStudyPerspectiveTraditionAncientDrawingChineseConventionsDecayBrushesTextureFruition Author:John French Sloan
“I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.” IdeasArtistUniqueConcernedTraditionImageryContinuityInventingModernismAdvancingAvant Garde Author:Nathan Oliveira
“My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.” WellsArtArtistLiteratureLinesKnownDevelopmentTraditionDefinedHillsFascinatingConsistentlyWell KnownCurvesTwistsNordic Author:Asger Jorn
“In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.” ArtistFemaleTraditionChristineGreat FemaleFemale Artists Author:Art Garfunkel