“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.” BeautifulSpiritBeautySacrificeWorstFashionSuperiorsFantasticAbstractConcreteVulgar Book:Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings
“Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.” MindArtEyeSpiritFleshContemplationRelyAbstractWorks Of ArtRealismGreat WorkNaturalism Author:Alex Grey
“The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.” WayHumansSpiritForceClearAbstractHuman SpiritWay Forward Author:Wassily Kandinsky