by quotations on art
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.” – Paul Klee
“The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and… he does it without destroying something else.” – George Plimpton
“Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.” – Georges Braque
(from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 5th Edition, 1999)
November 10, 2004 in Being an Artist, Other artists by Marja-Leena
I especially like the Klee quote.
Don’t know whether I agree with Plimpton – depends whether you count in folk like some of the Young Brits and the graffiti-ists!
Anna, you are right – did not think of them – though maybe Plimpton doesn’t call that art?
Klee really speaks for me too, in many ways, Amy!