Arthur Wesley Dow quotes
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“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 DowSource : "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 DowSource : "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 DowSource : "Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts" by Nancy E. Green and Jessie Poesch, Exhibt Cat., New York, 1999.
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
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