Arthur Wesley Dow quotes

“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.”
-- Arthur Wesley Dow

Source : "Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" by Arthur Wesley Dow, Boston, 1899.

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“art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”
-- Arthur Wesley Dow

Source : "Talks on the Appreciation of Art". "The Delineator" Magazine, January 1915.

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“Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.”
-- Arthur Wesley Dow

Source : "Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts" by Nancy E. Green and Jessie Poesch, Exhibt Cat., New York, 1999.

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“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”

“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”

“In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan

“I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.”

“I always knew I was going to die in space.”