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“This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.”

World Way Art Conditions Art Is Response Everyday

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.”

Moments Seems Power Progress Conditions Response Tyranny Adversaries Usage Optimum

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.”

Space Conditions Position Color Shapes Response

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.”

Happiness Our Lives Conditions Response Life Happiness

Author:Chris Prentiss

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

Needs Moments Past Memories Conditions Events Particular Personality Reader Elements Response Determine Mood Combination Traits Preoccupation Personality Traits Past Events

Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.”

Source: Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects