~ Art and the Artist Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than 'Die Meister Singer' of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man beyond history and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Ansel Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One of the recognizable features of the authentic masterpiece is its capacity to renew itself to endure the loss of some kinds of immediate relevance while still answering the most important questions men can ask including new ones they are just learning how to frame.

Arnold Stein

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

David Herbert Lawrence

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

Maurice Sendak

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Culture is something you cannot buy something you cannot import something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.

Thor Hansen