Albert C. Barnes Quotes

5 Sourced Quotes

A real work of art may, incidentally, tell a story, but error arises when we try to judge it by the narrative, or the moral pointed, instead of by the manner in which the artist has used his materials — color, line, space — to produce a work of plastic art; when, in other words, a literary or moral value has been mistaken for a plastic value.

Albert C. Barnes

Another error scarcely less destructive to genuine aesthetic appreciation is that which mistakes technical proficiency for artistic significance.

Albert C. Barnes

Art is not only an expression of the artist's creative spirit, but also a kind of handicraft, a skill in employing a special technique.

Albert C. Barnes

Everything that human beings do is ultimately dependent upon the feelings that things and acts awaken in them.

Albert C. Barnes

No art can reproduce fully the living concreteness of the real world, and so no art can provide the total experience with which active personal life presents us.

Albert C. Barnes

Albert C. Barnes

Albert C. Barnes

Creative Commons

Born: January 2, 1872

Died: July 24, 1951 (aged 79)

Bio: Albert Coombs Barnes was an American physician, chemist, businessman, art collector, writer, and educator, and the founder of the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania.

Albert C. Barnes on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

American Chemist Quotes

19th-century Chemist Quotes