|
Leonardo
da Vinci |
My
advice is not to trouble yourself with words unless you are
speaking to the blind. |
|
Leonardo
da Vinci |
Tell
me if anything at all was done.
(He wrote this over and over in his last notebooks). |
|
Wyndham
Lewis
(1882-1957) |
Ah,
sir, as to the artist in England! I have often thought it would solve a great
many problems if English painters were born blind. |
|
Sol
Le Witt |
Ideas
alone can be Works of Art. (1969) |
|
Maya
Lin |
I
really did mean for people to cry, then have to turn and walk
into the light. (About her Vietnam Veteran's Memorial) |
|
Alain
Locke |
In
contemporary American art of this generation, both the Negro and
the White
artist stand on common ground in their aim to document every
phase of
American life and experience.
More and more you will notice in their
canvasses the sober realism which goes beneath the jazzy,
superficial show
of things or the mere picturesqueness of the Negro to the deeper
truths of
life, even the social problems of religion, labor, housing,
lynching,
unemployment, and the like.
For today's beauty must not be pretty with
sentiment but solid and dignified with truth.
(July 1940 for Exhibition
of the Art of the American Negro:
1851-1940) |
|
John
A. Locke
(1632-1704) |
That
which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic
and random is confusing. In between lies art. |
|
Adolph
Loos |
Ornament
is wasted manpower and therefore wasted health. It has always
been like this. But today it also means wasted material, and
both mean wasted capital.
(Ornament and Crime, 1908) |
|
Alfred
de Lostalot |
Impressionism
offers everything for the eye and nothing for the thought. |
