artistic conception Quotes

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.