The superego is created to arbitrate the functions of the conscious and the unconscious mind. So are neuroses and psychoses, so are the arts. When art functions as the synthesizer, the arbitrator, balance is created. In great art – the Bible, Shakespeare, Bach – the balance is long-lasting. It is not that great art reveals […]
Art Quotes
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness, meaning at oneness, the state of being at one with the object. The picture must all come out of the artist’s inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
Art is to the community what the dream is to the individual.
That is the secret of great art, and of its effect upon us. The creative process… consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present, and so makes it possible […]
On a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was standing near two women who were admiring a painting. One of the women remarked: “What a beautiful painting. I wonder who the artist was?” The other volunteered to find out and walked over to read the wall plaque beside it. She reported that […]
You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim.
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
