Kyffin Williams quotes

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health
-- Kyffin Williams

#Art #Fortune

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.
-- Kyffin Williams

#Sadness #Autumn #Years

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!