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.

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

Topics: Art, Two, Space

art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

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

Topics: Art, Lying, Choices

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.

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

Topics: Art, Expression, Creative