The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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 whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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