In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.
It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.
Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.