Speak For Themselves

dad joke

collage

abstract art

Henri Matisse

modern art

munchausen syndrome

Andy Warhol

Jackson Pollock

Joan Miro

Pablo Picasso

Wassily Kandinsky

Marc Chagall

museum

exposing

Scream (painting)

poop

shit

trivia

is a by-product of an act of total attention.

And art is a by-product of an act of total attention. (Dorothea Lange)

is a combination of many levels of mind in order to make a statement of their combination.

It is not that art is the expression of the unconscious, but rather that it is concerned with the relation betweenthe levels of mental process. From a work of art it may be possible to analyse out some unconscious thoughts of the artist, but I believe that, for example, Freud's analysis of Leonardo's 'Virgin on the Knees of St. Anne' precisely misses the point of the whole exercise. Artistic skill is the combining of many levels of mind-unconscious, conscious and external to make a statement of their combination. It is not a matter of expressing a single level. (Bateson 1970: 12)

Art: a consciousness-provoking vessel. (Elle Nicolai)

is a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate... it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate... it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other. (Eric Fischl)

is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind. (Meher Baba)

is a domain which contributes to society not on the level of the social statement but by producing a sense of wonder and a feeling of something beyond ourselves that celebrates our 'being' here.

Art does not make social statements, but contributes to society on a deeper, less tangible level. I feel that what we should get from art is a sense of wonder, of something beyond ourselves, that celebrates our 'being' here. (Trevor Bell)

is a dream for awakened minds, a work of imagination withdrawn from ordinary life, dominated by the same forces that dominate the dream, and yet giving us a perspective and dimension on reality that we don't get from any other approach to reality.

a dream for awakened minds, a work of imagination withdrawn from ordinary life, dominated by the same forces that dominate the dream, and yet giving us a perspective and dimension on reality that we don't get from any other approach to reality.

art, n.Definitions

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