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“What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.”

Art Whole Individual Community Gone Art Is Who You Are

Author:Wendell Pierce

“Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.”

Art Age Certain Individual Religious Genius Art Is Tradition Supreme Statements Traditional Abandoned Heroic Religious Truth

Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.”

Men Art States Found Individual Levels Secret Creation Return Art Is Artistic Participation Effectiveness Mystique Artistic Creation

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.”

Art Whole Individual Audience Imagine Art Is Individuality

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

Art Inspiration Past Artist Individual Results Education Study Talent Taught Art Is Tradition Deny

Author:Gustave Courbet

“Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.”

Art Individual White Achievement Art Is Originals Mere Appearance Significant Genuine Mysterious Remarkable Poetic Gifted Finest Dense Actuality

Author:William Walsh

“I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.”

People Mind Persons Art Matter Artist Individual Art Is Statistics

Author:Maurizio Cattelan

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.”

Should Art Artist Fighting Individual Strong Vision Clear Willing Integrity Art Is Remains Familiar Something New Clear Vision

Author:Maya Lin

“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.”