Art is a
visual communication, similar to language and music. It uses shapes,
colors, lines, textures, and sizes. Techniques are chosen that best
display the artist's ideas, intentions, and feelings about the world
he lives in.
"After all, the goal is not making art. It is living life. Those
who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art"
(3)
Robert Henri
"Art acts in a different realm. It's impact is nonmaterial
(though it can be no less substantial); it works in an interior
world, on one individual at a time. Its fruits are subversion rather
than conquest, warfare or overt revolution. It may be one of the
last havens for the absolute, in which individuality can still
flourish more or less in total freedom - and act with absolute
responsibility." (4)
Thomas Albright
"... The philosopher Hans Jonas has described picture - making as
the most decisive and unique attribute of man" (5)
3. Robert Henri, The Art Spirit, (Toronto, Canada, Fitzhenry &
Whiteside Ltd., 1984) p. 198
4. Thomas Albright, On Art and Artists, Essays by Thomas Albright,
(U.S.A., The Chronicle Publishing Co.,1989) p. 187
5. Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception - A Psychology of the
Creative Eye, The New Version, (Berkeley and L.A. California, U. of
Cal. Press, 1974 ) p. 176
