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“The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.”

Men Art States Found Individual Levels Secret Creation Return Art Is Artistic Participation Effectiveness Mystique Artistic Creation

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.”

States Artist Suffering Energy Divine Source Naked Artistic Tension Great Art Discontent Great Artist Disequilibrium

Book:Truth and Fantasy from My Life

Source: Truth and Fantasy from My Life

“A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.”

World Mind Art Country States Age Process Security Style Constant Satisfaction Artistic Fixed Temper Classicism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.”

Matter States Freedom Duty Artistic Competent

Author:Gustave Courbet

“One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.”

Has Beens States Principles Perfection Productions Artistic Being Wrong Irregularity

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“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.”

Persons Art States Belief Process Interest Natural Opinion Creation Pure Normal Happenings Art Is Direct Depth Artistic Works Of Art Projection Artistic Creation

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.”

Needs Feels Years Has Beens War States Action Three Speak Impossible Affair Currents Productions Artistic Poetic Three Years Impossibility Factual Year One

Author:Casey Spooner