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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
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The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.
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Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
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That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
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Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
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Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
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Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
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Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
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The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
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In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
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The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
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The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
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It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
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The word composition moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a 'composition'. This word affected me like a prayer.
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There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
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As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.
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Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble...
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It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance...
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.
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Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
December 4, 1866
Died:
December 13, 1944
(aged 78)
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