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“True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.”

Men Art Higher Ordinary Art Is

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

Knows Art Made Character Effort Situation Accepting Greater Acceptance Ordinary Art Is Strive Everyday Incline

Author:Lawren Harris

“Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.”

Ifs Art Special Ordinary Art Is Cooking Sauce

Book:Lethaby, a Continuing Presence: Seven Essays Taken from Form in Civilization

Source: Lethaby, a Continuing Presence: Seven Essays Taken from Form in Civilization

“No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.”

Art Poetry Accepting Unique Models Lows Ordinary Art Is Function Extraordinary Commonplace

Author:Rosalind E. Krauss

“Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.”

People Thinking Should Heart Art Ability Ordinary Art Is Should Have Mysterious Elites Ordinary People

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to hold on to. It's more chemical reaction, one you have to re-create each time, than a substance. Art's discoveries are also, almost always, counter to ordinary truths.”

Art Remember Impossible Ordinary Art Is Discovery Reactions Substance Chemicals Multiple Unforgettable Newness Chemical Reactions

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

Humans Kind Art Sometimes Artist Difficult Human Beings Sacrifice Office Ordinary Art Is Instruments Innate Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”

Art Ordinary Art Is

Author:Camille Paglia

“the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart”

Way Heart Art Running Ordinary Art Is Concepts Destruction Substitutes

Book:sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

“It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."”

Needs Should Wells May Art Made Book Mystery Special Ordinary Understood Art Is All Things Cooking Ill Pity Chairs Works Of Art Statues Carpe Diem Sauce Occult Carpe

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.”

Art I Can Ends Fronts Ordinary Art Is Horse

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations