top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Aesthetics quotes
"The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books."
"Purposefully look for something beautiful today."
"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul."
"Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock."
"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me."
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."
"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
Explore more quotes by John Fowles
"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."
"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."
"Death is not in the nature of things, it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal."
"I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart."
"Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters."
bottom of page