“Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.” ThinkingWritingLongArtPhilosophyOughtArt IsPaintPhotographerDetailsPainterRuinsForsake Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values
“I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.” PhilosophyStudyReflectionProfessionPainterDilettantes Author:Antoni Tapies
“Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.” KnowsTryingArtPhilosophyArtistCultureKnownPhilosophicalCriticsDenyPainterDeniedTranslateOutlookDealerEpistemologyCezanneArt Critic Author:Semir Zeki