The true artist values growth and change, while his audience does
not.
"But
while the painter, eager to create, rejects the natural image
directly he has made use of it, the crowd long remains the slave of
the painted image, and persists in seeing the world only through the
symbol adopted. This is why any new form seems monstrous, and why
the most slavish imitations are admired." (52)
Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger
"I HAVE A HORROR OF COPYING MYSELF." (53)
Picasso
"I believe it is more significant to keep one's painting in a
condition of severe experimentalism than to become a quick success
by means of cheap repetition." (54)
Marsden Hartley
"El Greco's indifference to the public opinion of the day, his
courage in the face of much opposition and his determination to
pursue his own individuality... brings him close to the people of
today...,"and that rather than being the product of one school of
painting or one school of thought, `He has taken something from the
best of several schools, which he has woven with his own personality
to produce something unique..." (55)
Bertram Brooker
52. Herschel B. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art, (Berkeley and L.A.
Cal., University of California Press, 1968), p.211
53. Rosamond Bernier, Matisse, Picasso, Miro - As I Knew Them,
(N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,1991), p. 199
54. Herschel B. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art. (Berkeley and L.A.,
Cal., University of California Press, 1968) p.529
55. Essay by Christine Boyanoski, ed. by Ian M. Thom, David Milne,
(Vancouver, Canada, Douglas and McIntyre Ltd.,1991), p.35
