“Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.” MindArtDecisionCreativeConsciousArt IsFinalsAbstractUnconsciousConscious MindAbstract Art Author:Lawren Harris
“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.” KnowsWayShouldWritingKindMayHas BeensArtFactsAbleWrittenInfluenceConsciousArt IsShould HaveMadSubtleSignificanceFollowersOverwhelmingAestheticShould Have BeenSchoenberg Author:Maurice Ravel
“So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.” LittlesArtImportantSeemsQualityExpressionConsciousArt IsImportanceIntellectSubconsciousPsychologist Author:Edward Hopper
“I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.” LifeBelieveArtLyingReadingI BelievePrayerPrayingConsciousArt IsResponseBelieve In GodPraying To God Author:Reverend Malcolm Boyd
“I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to avoid that, unless it is pure decoration. But even pure decoration has also some value because you can read pure decoration as a way to ignore the reality that is around us, saying, "Well, I'm not interested. I just like to paint this wall blue.” ThinkingArtRealityPoliticalValuesWallConsciousArt IsPaintNot InterestedDecoration Author:Alfredo Jaar
“Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.” MindArtSelfInspirationGivenExpressionConsciousArt IsLabelsAgencySelf Expression Author:Norman Lindsay
“Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.” PersonsArtSelfWholeChristianExpressionConsciousArt IsWhole LifeVehicleEvangelismSelf ConsciousTotalityWhole PersonChristian Art Book:Art & the Bible: Two Essays Source: Art & the Bible: Two Essays
“This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.” ArtPhilosophyWould BeLiteratureProcessChallengesEffortAcceptingPracticeKnowingTeacherTeachingStudentsConsciousArt IsOvercomingConvictionEducationalLimitationSensitive Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage