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“But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.”

Art Soul Doubt Art Is Blue Mere Lunatic

Author:Marc Chagall

“Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.”

Art Soul Emotion Inspire Source Art Is Inspire Others

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.”

World Needs Doe Art Soul Hands Cities Art Is Difficulty Variety Permit Proliferation

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.”

Mean Art Soul Ends Difficult Imagination Students Art Is Fundamentals Technique

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.”

May Art Soul Worship Illusion Art Is Infinite Lifetime Goddess Intrigue Fickle

Author:Robert Genn

“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”

Giving Wells Art Soul Ends Pain Joy Courses Levels Common Brain Known Fantasy Development Art Is Profession Personal Development Pursuit Common Sense Ugliness Diploma

Author:Robert Genn

“Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.”

Men Art Soul Growth Essentials Training Art Is Contrary Distraction Amusement

Author:Lawren Harris

“Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.”

Art Soul Matter Inspiration Religious Attitude Environment Subjects Elements Draws Art Is Miracle Ancestor Tangible Subject Matter

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed.”

World Art Soul Whole Reality Purpose Art Is Presses Communicate Objectives Conventions Concealed Objective Reality Purpose Of Art

Book:The Nature of Sympathy

Source: The Nature of Sympathy

“The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.”

Heart Mean Art Soul Art Is Ideals Ugly Appeals Lifts

Author:Florence Earle Coates