“Art is that
imaginative expression of human energy, which, through
technical
concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the
individual
with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion.
And
the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal
emotion
in an hypothecated perfect human being.”
John Galsworthy 1867-1933
“Art
might be recognized, in itself, a piece of nature which has been
duplicated…..”
“My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when life began;
So is it now I am a man
So it be when I shall grow old
Or let me die!
The child is father to the man;
My Heart Leap Up
When I Behold.”
William
Wordsworth 1770-1850
“Perpetual
modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Thomas
Carlyle 1795-1881
“So vast
is art, so narrow human wit.”
Alexander
Pope 1688-1744
Some thoughts
about art from the past.
But today
the question What is art? and What is an Artist?
Are not
easily answered.
“There is
no single definition of art.”
“The idea
of defining art is so remote,
anyone would dare to do it!”
William
Rubin, director of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The Museum of Modern
Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, 10019
“Today no
consensus about anything;
more or
less anything can be designated as art.”
Philippe
de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd
Street
New York, 1028-0198
Richard's visit at
the museum.
