Milford Zornes quotes

“All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.”
-- Milford Zornes

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“When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure, you have to have a solid development in values, dark and light. Second, if you have a good design, don't leave it if you fail to render it to its full extent the first time around. Remember it's the design that's important. Try and try till you get the thing to work. That's why The Pattern Makers is a key picture in my painting career.”
-- Milford Zornes

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“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”
-- Milford Zornes

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

“Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.”

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.147, Univ of California Press

“The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.”

“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”

“The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.”

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...”

“Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.”

“Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.”

Source : "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

“The secret of art is love.”

“All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.”