More in Seurat than in Ingres.
— P. D. Q. Bach (1729 - 1648),
Quoted by Duncan Bain in Against Contrapuntalism, a manifesto, Breek-Anathema
Press, 1990.
What a delightful thing this
perspective is!
— Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475
By viewing Nature, Nature's
handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small
beginnings grow
— John Dryden (1631 - 1700
Our sight is the most perfect
and delightful of our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,
converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in
action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
— Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719),
The Spectator, 411.
If computer art has a future
as an art form in its own right, it is to be found in the dynamic, the animated,
the interactive. It should look not towards Rembrandt, but towards Verdi's 'Aïda'.
Not just the classical 'Aïda', but an 'Aïda' with the audience singing along and
scrambling onto the backs of the elephants on stage. Chaos? No. Total theatre.
— Philip J. Davis and Reuben
Hersh, Descartes' Dream, Penguin, 1990, p. 53.
I told a seemingly sane man
that I got my artistic education on the Bowery, and he said 'Oh, really? So they
have a school of fine arts there?'
— Stephen Crane (1870 - 1900)
to James Huneker, quoted in Alfred Kazin, An American Procession, Secker
and Warburg, 1985.
'There is a pleasure in painting
which none but painters know.' In writing, you have to contend with the world; in
painting you have only to carry on a friendly strife with Nature.
— William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830),
On the Pleasure of Painting.
TEKEL: Thou art weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting.
— Holy Bible, Daniel, 5:27.
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