“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.” ShouldKindArtEyeEmotionCallingConcernEarsHarmonyIndependentDevotionPityArtisticAppealsTrapsArrangementsStand AloneConfoundingPity Love Book:Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)
“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.” MenDesireLostNaturalEmotionConcernRelationAbsolutesContactExalted Author:Barnett Newman
“The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.” ArtBigsSpeakPowerfulEmotionAudienceMessagesConcernUniversalLife And DeathBig QuestionsUnrelentingPowerful Emotions Author:Scott Kahn
“It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.” PeopleWantProblemCultureLiteratureEmotionReaderConcernUniversalIntentionTurkeysTurkish Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.” WorldWantFeelsYearsCareEarthCertainEmotionGratitudeConcernDifficultyDon't CareDebtI Don't CareThirtySparesThirty YearsSouvenirs Author:Vincent Van Gogh