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| 'It would be a mistake
to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent.
in art, the genius creator is not just a gifted
being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging
for their appointed end, a complex of activities,
of which the work is the outcome. the artist begin
with a vision -- a creative operation requiring
an effort. Creativity takes courage.' |
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954), French modernist artist,
artlex.com
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| 'Works
of art provide us with individual satisfaction:
a sense of release; pleasure and reflection. And
they act as a focal point around which we can share
and dispute meanings.' |
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Beyond Boundaries: The Arts after the Events of
2001, By Peter Hewit [b] |
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| 'Art
must break with all the practices of the perfumed,
perverse, hypersensitive, hysterical, romantic,
individualistic, boudoir - type art of yesterday.
it must create a new language of form, available
to all and in harmony with the rhythm of life' |
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Berlewi, Henryk 1924, Yesterday |
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| 'Public
art can express civic values, enhance the environment,
transform a landscape, heighten our awareness, or
question our assumptions. placed in a public site,
this art is therefore for everyone, a form of collective
community expression--from the once celebrated but
now unrecognised general on a horse to the abstract
sculpture that may baffle the passer-by on first
glance' |
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Bach- Balkin, Penny (contemporary American), art
administrator, Artlex.com |
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The Connection articles
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| 'The
cross-fertilisation between art and advertising,
design and fashion, is now seamless and runs in
both directions' |
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J.Mc. Ewen, Art Review, related to Century City
Exhibition [b] |
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The Connection articles
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| 'There
really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
once these were men who took coloured earth and
roughed out the forms of a bison on the wall of
a cave; today some buy their paints, and design
posters for the hoardings; they did and do many
other things. there is no harm in calling all these
activities art as long as we keep in mind that such
a word may mean very different things in different
times and places, and as long as we realise that
art with a capital a has no existence' |
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By Ernst H. Gombrich, The Story of Art, Introduction,
p4, The Story of Art [b] |
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| 'Art
has so many aspects,, takes so many directions,
serves so many purposes in such a variety of ways,
that the question is almost as big as the biggest
of all, What is life?' |
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By John Canaday |
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| "Artist
bring indications of what a world can be like 'they
bring into existence what is already there but not
yet exist, through a story'.." |
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By Barbara Radice and Ettore
Sottsass, From book Ettore Sottsass, Critical Biography,
page30 [b]
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| 'Too
often we think of creativity just as "art",
but art is not in fact a very high expression of
creativity because art can be wonderful without
much change in ideas or perception' |
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By Paul Rand, Thoughts on design [b] |
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| 'If
today's arts love the machine, technology and organization,
if they aspire to precision and reject anything
vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation
of chaos and a longing to the form appropriate to
our times.' |
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By
Oskar
Schlemmer (1888-1943), German artist. His diary,
April 1926 |
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