Downtown #4. Denver, Colorado, 2013
Today I thought I’d wax a bit more pensive after yesterday’s brief mention of the sport of American football. So, to that end, here are ten great nuggets about art and the creative process that will get you alternatively thinking and chuckling.
Go slow, and chew thoroughly before swallowing:
Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered. (Al Capp)
Art has no end but its own perfection. (Plato)
Art is purposiveness without purpose. (Immanuel Kant)
Good art is in the wallet of the beholder. (Kathy Lette)
Art is really a battle. (Edgar Degas)
Art is a harmony parallel with nature. (Paul Cezanne)
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth. (Auguste Rodin)
Every artist was first an amateur. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. (Oscar Wilde)
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art… Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes. (Mark Twain)
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