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Abstract art (n.) is understandable if one thinks of it like music, which has been for some centuries the only art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul.
Abstract art (n.) is about learning how to view a picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
Abstract art (n.) is pure effect. The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.
Abstract art (n.) places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
Abstract art (n.) is a genre in which the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
Abstract art (n.) is grounded in the notion that objects damage pictures.
Abstract art (n.) is a form of art that increases in clear and direct appeal the more abstract it is.
Abstract painting (n.) demands that one know how to draw well, that one has a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that one is a true poet.
Art (n.) is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
Art (n.) is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Art (n.) is a thing which to view is to stop thinking and to ask oneself only whether the work has enabled one to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
The Beautiful (n.) is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
Beauty (n.) is produced by the inner need which springs from the soul.
Black (n.) is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
Color (n.) is inextricable from sound. No one would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.
Green (n.) is evocative of the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.
The Work of art (n.) is the child of its time... each period produces an art of its own, which cannot be repeated.
The Work of art (n.) is, when created, the creation of the world.