“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.”
Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) American philosopher
Source: Feeling and Form (1953), Ch. 3, p. 40
Quote in 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting', Kazimir Malevich, November 1916
1910 - 1920
“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.”
Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) American philosopher
Source: Feeling and Form (1953), Ch. 3, p. 40
El Lissitsky (1890–1941) Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect
1915 - 1925, Theses on the 'PROUN': from painting to architecture' (1920)
“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation. ”
Тьерри Гетта (1966) Paris-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker and street artist
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) Soviet poet
"Lines to Robert Lowell"; translation by Louis Simpson and Vera Dunham, from Vera Dunham and Max Hayward (eds.) Nostalgia for the Present (New York: Doubleday, 1978) p. 111.
“Reductionism can expand our vision and give us new insights into the nature and creation of art.”
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
The Age of Insight (2012)
Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer
Quote from 'The will to Style', in Dutch art-magazine De Stijl February-March 1922; as quoted in 'Theo van Doesburg', Joost Baljeu, Studio Vista, London 1974, p. 123
1920 – 1926
“Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent
Quote of Malevich, cited in Artists on Art; from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 452
1910 - 1920
“Art is… a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.”
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Secular, Sacred, or Both?, 2005-07-11, 2006-08-25, Bowman, Kate http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/commentaries/secularsacreddivide.html,