The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
The World Motivation
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.