Robin G. Collingwood Quotes

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

Formal art is essentially rational.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

Art is nothing without form.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.