“While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.” KnowsArtTodayBeautifulSpiritualConstantDenyContemporaryUrgesSuspectsSublimeResistingContemporary Art Author:Ian Hornak
“What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.” YearsArtBeautifulEnergyViewsPiecesModernArt IsExtraordinaryPoint Of ViewContemporaryAestheticContemporary ArtNew Energy Author:Victor Pinchuk
“In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.” HumansBeautifulBeautyHavensDesignCreationGardenKingdomsContemporaryProportionInvitesArchitectTransformedEfficientPartnershipMajestyAggressivenessContemporary Life Author:Luis Barragan
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.” IfsGivingWould BeBeautifulSpiritualCertainPathClearTroubleModernConcernDirectMathematicsAncientOneselfCirclesContemporarySymbolsMediationAncient Wisdom Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.” PeopleWorldBeautifulTurnsDarkConsciousnessShadowGardenAncientEdgesContemporaryCaliforniaUncomfortableGood LifeSouthernParallelsVergeFlourishingAnnihilationAffluentSouthern CaliforniaPompeiiMuralLiving The Good Life Author:Eleanor Antin