“The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.” KindNaturalPerceptionHighestExperienceArtisticMysticalIntuitiveMystical ExperiencesAnalogue Book:The Seven Storey Mountain Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.” WayTryingArtNaturalWalksAnimalArt IsSeriesSakeArtisticGesturesWild Animal Book:John Marin Source: John Marin
“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.” IfsMenMindLittlesMatterHelpingBodyTodayYoungCertainSexNaturalWhiteClassFeminismMiddleTaughtHugeConflictFemaleInstinctFeministSexualityArtisticMiddle ClassAgendasGapsAmbitiousRhetoricYoung WomenDocumentsAmbivalenceFemale SexualityNatural InstinctLittle Help Author:Camille Paglia
“A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.” PersonsArtStatesBeliefProcessInterestNaturalOpinionCreationPureNormalHappeningsArt IsDirectDepthArtisticWorks Of ArtProjectionArtistic Creation Author:Jean Dubuffet
“The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.” WayUsedGivenNaturalProductsHarmonyStructureHearingScalesInventionUsed To BeArtisticBehaviourFormation Author:Hermann von Helmholtz
“Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.” MenMindReasonHandsSeemsFormUniverseNaturalExistenceWesternAcceptedRationalArtisticGreekCosmosMeaninglessIrrationalFormalMeaninglessness Author:William Barrett
“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.” MenWorldHumansMayUseSeemsPastNaturalEducationWonderConditionsProductsEssentialsMarkDelightEducatedArtisticReasonableHeritageHuman ConditionNatural WorldDynamicsEducated ManKnowledge Of The Past Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand