Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) American writer and art critic
Source: Art & Other Serious Matters, (1985), p. 51, "Inquest into Modernism"
“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.”
"Inversion"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
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“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Context: Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
“A skillful Artist in shapes and appearances does no more than necessary to create His effect.”
Robert A. Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice
Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
Context: Time is never a problem on the God level. Or space. Whatever needed to deceive you was provided. But no more than that. That is the conservative principle in art at the God level. While I can't do it, not being at that level, I have seen a lot of it done. A skillful Artist in shapes and appearances does no more than necessary to create His effect.
“An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.”
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English writer
The Temptaion of Harringay (1929)
“He who would to the purpose do a good action, must not neglect his season.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Heaven On Earth, 1654
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Attributed to Rodin in: Southwestern Art Vol. 6 (1977). p. 20; Partly cited in: A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 7
1930s and later
“We are finding out that what looked like a neglected house a year ago is in fact a ruin.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Statement about the conditions in Czechoslovakia and other previously Soviet Bloc countries. Daily Telegraph London (3 January 1991)
“I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is "shocking."”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Context: I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is "shocking." But look here, lack of money and poverty have something to do with it too, as well as a profound disillusionment, and besides, it is sometimes a good way of ensuring the solitude you need, of concentrating more or less on whatever study you are immersed in.