“Art is the objectification of feeling.
It is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.”

—  Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Last update May 25, 2022. History

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“Anywhere I found wood I took it home and started working with it.. to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.”

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“Art is the objectification of feeling.”

Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) American philosopher

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“Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields.”

Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet

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“Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.”

Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) American artist

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“There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine.”

Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet

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Context: There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me. There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.

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“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”

Sebastian Junger (1962) American author, journalist and documentarian

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“To me, art has always been a fun way to be creative.”

Roger Kastel (1932) American artist

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“In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.”

André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician

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“Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.”

Jacek Tylicki (1951) American artist

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“And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

X, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

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