... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compass...ionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a wilderness of commonplace and much that is ugly and poor.... there seems no inspiration, no evolvement of the beautiful..., no intricate poetic conception, no freshness. It is all "technique, technique." There is little independence of vision; all "treatment" with no apprehension of the thing to treat.... They are adventurous, these artists. They draw admirably; they do not color so well, and they have few ideals.... that ideal which was once the real world of the artist seems to have fled, and that present world, "all around us lying," does not seem to have revealed itself to the artist with its truest and most tender grace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible..., keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art--that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, express...ed by every means available to the arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we can learn ... to look at the ways in which various groups appropriate and use the mass-produced art of our culture ... we ma...y well begin to understand that although the ideological power of contemporary cultural forms is enormous, indeed sometimes even frightening, that power is not yet all-pervasive, totally vigilant, or complete.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so... that they can accept it or reject it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control o...ver what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is t...o things made by his art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »