
“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
Source: An Artist of the Floating World
Jessica Minh Anh (2019) cited in: " Catwalk Call-to-Action: Jessica Minh Anh’s Sustainability Series https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/catwalk-call-to-action-jessica-minh-anhs-sustainability-series-1203216605/" in Women's Wear Daily, 8 July 2019.
“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
Source: An Artist of the Floating World
“I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.”
Statement (16 December 1982) as quoted in The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (1992) by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273.
"The West Should Fear the Growth of State Capitalism," http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7883061/The-West-should-fear-the-growth-of-state-capitalism-Ian-Bremmer.html The Daily Telegraph (July 10, 2010).
The Age of Insight (2012)
Context: Like other modern artists faced with the advent of the photography, Klimt sought newer truths that could not be captured by the camera. He... turned the artists view inward—away from the three-dimensional outside world and toward the multidimensional inner self and the unconscious mind.
On the specific English that he chose for his writings in “Daljit Nagra interview: Yoda-speak and Yorkshire voices” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10402180/Daljit-Nagra-interview-Yoda-speak-and-Yorkshire-voices.html in The Telegraph (2013 Oct 24)
David Bomberg "The Bomberg Papers", ed. Patrick Swift, X: A Quarterly Review, Vol 1, No 3, June 1960
Context: Speaking generally Art endevours to reveal what is true and needs to be free. All things said regarding Art are subject to contradiction. An artist whose integrity sustains his strength to make no compromise with expediency is never degraded. His life work will resemble the integrating character of the primaries in the Spectrum. At the beginning, of the middle period, and at the end… I approach drawing solely for structure. I am perhaps the most unpopular artist in England – and only because I am draughtsman first and painter second. Drawing demands a theory of approach, until good drawing becomes habit – it denies all rules. It requires high discipline… Drawing demands freedom, freedom demands liberty to expand in space – this is progress. By the extension of democracy – good draughtsmanship is – Democracy’s visual sign. To draw with integrity replaces bad habits with good, youth preserved from corruption. The hand works at high tension and organises as it simplifies, reducing to barest essentials, stripping all irrelevant matter obstructing the rapidly forming organisation which reveals the design. This is drawing.
As quoted in "Oh, girl : A Talk with Julie Taymor" at Subtitles to Cinema (2 September 2008)
“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”