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- Art Proverbs - What is Art -
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
by Friedrich Nietzsche - 1844 -1900
(sounds beautiful - I just wonder how or what is the deciding factor of beautiful or great?)
- "Art is the daughter of freedom"
German philosopher, poet and dramatist - Friedrich Schiller
( I guess these days in our political correct times - he would have said >
art is the child of freedom ?
I wonder why he used daughter, is it, because Art in German "Kunst" is a female noun )
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The tongue can paint what the eye can't see. (Chinese proverb)
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All art is concerned with coming into being... for art is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
(Aristotle)
ponder this one....
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
(Ludwig van Beethoven)
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Art is; not to worry about it...
Kahelu - cyberspace perspective
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Marcel Duchamp
( beautiful, make up your own rules to stimulate creativity without conformity - Kahelu)
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Art is unconditional
It's Tidy Kid's aim to steadily de-condition the artistic mind away from the brain, without destroying the general well being and human nature of the physical person . You see, when you think about it that way, that's exactly why great minds become mad, they reject the brain's beauty and often miss out on so many other tools of expression, which this world, this playground we are all in, has on offer.
Tidy Kid - music installation artist
- The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting".
Vincent van Gogh.
- "It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly".
Claude Monet
- "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection".
Michelangelo
- "Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence".
Henri Matisse - Leonardo da Vinci ?
- "Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it".
Salvador Dali
- "Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation".
Paul Cezanne.
- Imagination is more important than Knowlwdge
Albert Einstein
(.... good old Albert - couldn't have said it better myself )
- "It is a gift to be able to paint a particular picture or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts."
Henry David Thoreau -
1817-1862, Essayist and Poet
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."
- Albert Einstein -
(.... good old Albert again, how beautiful is that...)
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