“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.” ArtFormGrowthMemoriesVisionPathShapesArt IsBreatheExplorationContractsRecollectionNew PathsNew VisionArmenia Author:Arshile Gorky
“Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.” MenArtSoulGrowthEssentialsTrainingArt IsContraryDistractionAmusement Author:Lawren Harris
“People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.” PeopleKnowsArtFactsSeemsStrongGrowthKnownArt IsEnglandPressesSpreadLondonAwakeBritainCentreGreat Britain Author:Edward Elgar
“My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.” WantMeanArtMadeUnderstandingGrowthCitiesArt IsBuiltStonesAppearanceDeeperWoodsSurfaceParksDeeper Understanding Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.” MenGivingMindArtLawJoyValuesGrowthStudyInfluenceHigherArt IsSightCaughtIntellectEvery ManSensesObservationHintsScrapRefining Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.” ArtAgeGrowthBehindsProgressFineArt IsSympathyDisabledComprehensionFine ArtsPhysically Disabled Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.” ArtMadeDoneIndividualGrowthKnownPrinciplesVirtueIntellectualArt IsInheritanceActivateFostering Author:Alonzo King
“Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.” HeartArtGovernmentArtistGrowthSupportDevelopmentEssentialsArt IsBritishPartnersPerformingVisualsRegionsCentreColumbiaPerforming ArtsBritish Columbia Author:Shelly Glover
“Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard work and insignificance to make her mark on the art world. Part of her growth is in realizing - even embracing - that the process of art is more important than the product or the recognition.” WorldWantYearsDoeArtImportantBookHardCertainWaitingProcessGrowthRealizingProductsHard WorkArt IsMarkRecognitionImpatienceExhibitsIvyArt WorldThrough The YearsInsignificance Author:Liza Campbell