Arthur Wesley Dow Quotes

Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and influential arts educator.

✵ 6. April 1857 – 13. December 1922
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Famous Arthur Wesley Dow Quotes

“.. art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

"Talks on the Appreciation of Art", The Delinator (Jan 1915)
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“Realism was the death of art.”

Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)

“Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.”

Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)
Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)

“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.”

Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)

“This man has one dominating idea.. to fill space in a beautiful way.”

Georgia O'Keeffe, The Artists Voice - Talks with Seventeen Artists, New York Harper & Row (1962)

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