“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.” IfsWorldLittlesArtProcessImaginationForgetBlameWorks Of ArtAnticipationSelectionAnticipateSimplification Book:The Art of Travel Source: The Art of Travel
“Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.” GivingLittlesArtWholeUniverseViewsWorks Of ArtIngenuityCosmology Author:Robin G. Collingwood
“I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.” KnowsTryingLittlesArtUnderstandingCreatingArt IsWorks Of ArtAnalogies Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007 Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.” MeanLittlesArtTodayGamesWinningViewsOpinionTomorrowSolitudeApproachCriticismEmptyOppositesInfiniteCleverUselessWorks Of ArtMeaninglessPartisansHardenedLiterary CriticismToday And Tomorrow Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.” PeopleFeelsLittlesArtStrongAngryShockWorks Of ArtSpeechless Author:Michael Heizer