I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.
When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.
...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.
Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.
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Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
