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“The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.”

Greater Emotional Simplicity Intensity

Author:Alan Hovhaness

“It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.”

Feels Children Wanted Desire Greater Intellectual Engaged Intensity Parameters

Author:Jeff Koons

“Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.”

Knows Age Spirit Suffering Compassion Greater Universal Tragic Over It Melancholy Intensity Serenity Improvisation Universal Love Great Lyric

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.”

Form Artist Goal Vision Greater Complexes Clarity Intensity

Author:Roger Ballen

“When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.”

Greater Range Intensity Lenses Aperture

Book:Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

Source: Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967