| Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world. ~Peter London, No More Second Hand Art We have art in order not to perish of truth. ~Friedrich Nietzsche |
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I,
an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out
loud. ~Emile Zola
There is something in us that loves symmetry,
selection, arrangement, as well as wildness and
irregularity. A small garden, accordingly, gives
its owner a far greater opportunity to express
himself than a small lawn. The usual lawn
expresses nothing so much a vacancy of mind
or an impious waste of good material; whereas
in a garden any man may be an artist, may
experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities
of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste
the god-like joys of the creator. ~H. G. Dwight,
Gardens and Gardening, Atlantic Monthly, 1912
an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out
loud. ~Emile Zola
There is something in us that loves symmetry,
selection, arrangement, as well as wildness and
irregularity. A small garden, accordingly, gives
its owner a far greater opportunity to express
himself than a small lawn. The usual lawn
expresses nothing so much a vacancy of mind
or an impious waste of good material; whereas
in a garden any man may be an artist, may
experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities
of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste
the god-like joys of the creator. ~H. G. Dwight,
Gardens and Gardening, Atlantic Monthly, 1912
| I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural. ~Alexander Pope, 1713 |
| A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. ~Joseph W. Beach But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination. ~Immanuel Kant, Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, 1790, Part I, 22 |
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